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tag-rag en · NOUN

Etymology

From tag + rag. See tag (“an end”).

Meanings

  1. (obsolete, plural, plural-only) The lowest class of people; the rabble or commoners.
    • If the tag-rag people did not clap him and hiss him, I am no true man. 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:

Deriveds

tagraggery

Relateds

tag, rag and bobtail · tag-rag and bobtail · rag, tag and bobtail · ragtag and bobtail

Translations (12)

pl hultajstwo (the rabble) · pl swołocz (the rabble) · pl tałatajstwo (the rabble) · pl bydło (the rabble) · pl hałastra (the rabble) · pl motłoch (the rabble) · pl hołota (the rabble) · pl dzicz (the rabble) · pl tłuszcza (the rabble) · hi रमदू फट्टू (the rabble) · pl gołota (the rabble) · pl barachło (the rabble)