tagrag

American  

[tag-rag] / ˈtægˌræg /

noun

1. riffraff; rabble.

2. a tatter.

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Etymology

Origin of tagrag

First recorded in 1575–85; tag ¹ + rag ¹

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Example Sentences

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tagrag

But so long as they think at Westminster that we're going to convert England with a tagrag and bobtail mob of Irish priests, we never shall make the right men.

From The Altar Steps by Compton MacKenzie

The laborers, their duty done, walked coolly away; the tagrag withdrew to a safe distance, waiting for what might come next; and Miss Carlyle moved away also.

From East Lynne by Mrs. Henry Wood

I never saw so full a Court, so much nobility with academical tagrag and bobtail.

From The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. II by Henry Reeve

In such statuesque, taper-holding attitude, one fancies De Launay might have left Thuriot, the red clerks of the Basoche, Curé of Saint-Stephen, and all the tagrag and bobtail of the world, to work their will.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII by Various

There was a large element of Sydney tagrag and bobtail there, and one had an uncomfortable sort of feeling that one was in a species of chain-gang.

From From Chart House to Bush Hut Being the Record of a Sailor's 7 Years in the Queensland Bush by Charles W. L. Bryde

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