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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɹæɡ/
Audio (US) (file)
- Rhymes: -æɡ
Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle English ragge, from Old English *ragg (suggested by derivative raggiġ (“shaggy; bristly; ragged”)), from Old Norse rǫgg (“tuft; shagginess”). Cognate with Swedish ragg. Related to rug.
Noun[edit]
rag (plural rags)
- (in the plural) Tattered clothes.
- 1684, John Dryden, Miscellany Poems: Containing a New Translation of Virgills Eclogues, Ovid's Love Elegies, Odes of Horace and Other Authors, The twenty-ninth ode of the first book of Horace:
- And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
- A piece of old cloth; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred, a tatter.
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book III, lines 490-491:
- Cowls, hoods, and habits, with their wearers, toss'd, / And flutter'd into rags; then reliques, beads,
- 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain from the Birth of Jesus Christ until the year MDCXLVIII[1], page 399:
- […] even by the law of their own might and malice, not having otherwise any rag of legality to cover the shame of their cruelty.
- A shabby, beggarly fellow; a ragamuffin.
- 1623, Ben Jonson, Time Vindicated to Himself and to His Honours:
- The other zealous rag is the compositor, / Who in an angle where the ants inhabit, / (The emblems of his labors) will sit curl'd
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, A Veue of the Present State of Irelande:
- For upon the like Proclamation there, they all came in, both tag and rag
- A ragged edge in metalworking.
- (nautical, slang) A sail, or any piece of canvas.
- 1864, James Russell Lowell, My Garden Acquaintance; A Good Word for Winter; A Moosehead Journal, page 83:
- Our ship was a clipper, with every rag set, stunsails, sky-scrapers, and all
- (slang, derogatory) A newspaper, magazine.
- (poker) A poor, low-ranking kicker.[1]
- I have ace-four on my hand. In other words, I have ace-rag.
Derived terms[edit]
- rags to riches, rags-to-riches
- red rag to a bull, red rag
- chew the rag
- cumrag
- dishrag
- do-rag
- fag rag
- glad rags
- head rag
- in rags
- jam rag
- jizzrag
- lose one's rag
- oily rag
- on the rag
- rag and bone man
- rag-and-bone shop
- ragazine
- ragbag
- rag bagger
- ragbond
- rag book
- rag-chewing
- rag doll
- ragged
- ragger
- raggy
- raghead
- raghorn
- ragleaf
- raglike
- ragman
- ragpick
- ragpicker
- rag pudding
- rag-roll
- rag-rolling
- rag rug
- rags and tatters
- ragtag
- ragtop
- rag trade
- ragweed
- ragworm
- ragwort
- red-ragger
- shag-rag
- smell of an oily rag
- snot rag
- tag-rag
- toe rag
- washrag
- wet rag
Translations[edit]
piece of cloth
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mean or tattered attire
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shabby, beggarly fellow
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ragged edge
(slang, pejorative) A newspaper
(poker) A poor kicker
- The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.
Verb[edit]
rag (third-person singular simple present rags, present participle ragging, simple past and past participle ragged)
- (intransitive) To become tattered.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for rag in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Etymology 2[edit]
Unknown origin; perhaps the same word as Etymology 1, above.
Noun[edit]
rag (plural rags)
- A coarse kind of rock, somewhat cellular in texture; ragstone.
- 2003, Peter Ackroyd, The Clerkenwell Tales, page 1:
- the three walls around the garden, each one of thirty-three feet, were built out of three layers of stone — pebble stone, flint and rag stone.
- 2003, Peter Ackroyd, The Clerkenwell Tales, page 1:
Derived terms[edit]
Verb[edit]
rag (third-person singular simple present rags, present participle ragging, simple past and past participle ragged)
- To break (ore) into lumps for sorting.
- To cut or dress roughly, as a grindstone.
Etymology 3[edit]
Origin uncertain.
Verb[edit]
rag (third-person singular simple present rags, present participle ragging, simple past and past participle ragged)
- To scold or tell off; to torment; to banter.
- (Britain slang) To drive a car or another vehicle in a hard, fast or unsympathetic manner.
- To tease or torment, especially at a university; to bully, to haze.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
To scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter
(British slang) To drive in a hard, fast or unsympathetic manner
(Indian) To haze
Noun[edit]
rag (plural rags)
- (dated) A prank or practical joke.
- (Britain, Ireland) A society run by university students for the purpose of charitable fundraising.
Derived terms[edit]
Etymology 4[edit]
Perhaps from ragged. Compare later ragtime.
Noun[edit]
rag (plural rags)
- (obsolete, US) An informal dance party featuring music played by African-American string bands. [19th c.]
- A ragtime song, dance or piece of music. [from 19th c.]
Translations[edit]
Verb[edit]
rag (third-person singular simple present rags, present participle ragging, simple past and past participle ragged)
- (transitive, informal) To play or compose (a piece, melody, etc.) in syncopated time.
- (intransitive, informal) To dance to ragtime music.
- (music, obsolete) To add syncopation (to a tune) and thereby make it appropriate for a ragtime song.[2]
References[edit]
- ^ Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. →ISBN
- ^ 2001. The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: North America. Garland Publishing. Ellen Koskoff (Ed.). Pg. 651.
Anagrams[edit]
Breton[edit]
Preposition[edit]
rag
Dutch[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Unknown, only found to related to West Frisian reach, though possibly more distantly to Old Saxon raginna (“rough hair”), Old English ragu (“moss”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
rag n (plural raggen, diminutive ragje n)
Synonyms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
rag n (plural rags, diminutive ragje n)
- A piece of ragtime music.
German[edit]
Verb[edit]
rag
- Imperative singular of ragen.
- (colloquial) First-person singular present of ragen.
Hungarian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Back-formation from ragad. Created during the Hungarian language reform which took place in the 18th–19th centuries.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
rag (plural ragok)
Declension[edit]
| Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | rag | ragok |
| accusative | ragot | ragokat |
| dative | ragnak | ragoknak |
| instrumental | raggal | ragokkal |
| causal-final | ragért | ragokért |
| translative | raggá | ragokká |
| terminative | ragig | ragokig |
| essive-formal | ragként | ragokként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | ragban | ragokban |
| superessive | ragon | ragokon |
| adessive | ragnál | ragoknál |
| illative | ragba | ragokba |
| sublative | ragra | ragokra |
| allative | raghoz | ragokhoz |
| elative | ragból | ragokból |
| delative | ragról | ragokról |
| ablative | ragtól | ragoktól |
| Possessive forms of rag | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
| 1st person sing. | ragom | ragjaim |
| 2nd person sing. | ragod | ragjaid |
| 3rd person sing. | ragja | ragjai |
| 1st person plural | ragunk | ragjaink |
| 2nd person plural | ragotok | ragjaitok |
| 3rd person plural | ragjuk | ragjaik |
Derived terms[edit]
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See also[edit]
North Frisian[edit]
Noun[edit]
rag m (plural rager)
- (Föhr-Amrum) (anatomy) back
Scottish Gaelic[edit]
Adjective[edit]
rag
Derived terms[edit]
Somali[edit]
Noun[edit]
rag ?
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