toerag
Britishnoun
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Etymology
Origin of toerag
C20: originally, a beggar, tramp: from the pieces of rag they wrapped round their feet
Example Sentences
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Not because football is a unique repository for hatred, but because there’s something about the cover of a crowd, in a stadium culture that sanctions all sorts of hostility, and in an activity that brings people of all ethnicities and nationalities together, that wakes up the bigoted little toerag who still dwells in too many of our heads.
From The Guardian
And so it is with new single Doing OK, which features up and coming singer Jacob Banks providing the chorus, and focuses more on the redemptive nature of apologising for being a bit of a toerag in the past.
From The Guardian
In a race against time, George and Annie pit their brains against those of the fiendish members of TOERAG.
From The Guardian
Besides, our hearing has never been the same since some toerag convinced us there was a G-spot in the right ear and we got a bit too zesty with a Johnson's cotton bud one hazy night.
From The Guardian
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