riffraff

English

Alternative forms

• riff-raff

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈɹɪfɹæf/

Noun

riffraff (uncountable)

1. The rabble; crowds; the common people.

   They started charging a modest fee in an effort to keep the riffraff out.

2. low class, ghetto, indigent

Translations

The rabble

• Dutch: geteisem (obsolete), schorremorrie, tuig, rapalje
• French: racaille (fr) f
• German: Pöbel (de) m
• Icelandic: pakk (is) n, skríll (is) m, illþýði (is) n
• Portuguese: ralé (pt) f
• Russian: чернь (ru) (černʹ) f, сброд (ru) (sbrod) m

• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: о̏лош (sh) m

  Roman: ȍloš (sh) m

• Spanish: gentuza (es) f, (Chile) flaite (es) m
• Swedish: pöbel (sv) c, kreti och pleti (sv), patrask (sv) n
• Volapük: lupöp (vo)