rag
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: card-games
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Etymology: From Middle English ragge, from Old English ragg (suggested by derivative raggiġ (“shaggy; bristly; ragged”)), from Old Norse rǫgg (“tuft; shagginess”), from Proto-Germanic *rawwa-, probably related to *rūhaz. Cognate with Swedish ragg. Related to rug.
Inflected forms:
form: rags
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rags
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ragging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ragged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ragged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Tattered clothes (clothing).
pos: noun
tags: especially
in-plural
examples: —What a pretty dress! —What, this old rag?
It's semiformal. I can't show up dressed in rags!
rags to riches
And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
gloss: A piece of old cloth, especially one used for cleaning, patching, etc.; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred or tatter.
pos: noun
examples: Cowls, hoods, and habits, with their wearers, toss'd, / And flutter'd into rags; then reliques, beads,
[…]even by the law of their own might and malice, not having otherwise any rag of legality to cover the shame of their cruelty.
gloss: A shabby, beggarly person; synonym of ragamuffin.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
examples: For upon the like Proclamation there, they all came in, both tag and rag
The other zealous rag is the compositor, / Who in an angle where the ants inhabit, / (The emblems of his labors) will sit curl'd
Nor will it be achieved by marching in the streets in leather, drag, chains, fish net over-flying-tits or any other get up. It will not be accomplished by hung-over bar rags, hustlers, shallow queens, or angry dykes.
gloss: A ragged edge in metalworking.
pos: noun
gloss: A sail, or any piece of canvas.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Our ship was a clipper, with every rag set, stunsails, sky-scrapers, and all.
"'Oh yes, that's all very well, but we haven't done with it yet,' said the lad, 'we shall have it worse directly,' and he ordered them to furl every rag but the mizen."
gloss: Sanitary napkins, pads, or other materials used to absorb menstrual discharge.
pos: noun
tags: plural
singular
slang
examples: "It's heaviest on the first day, which might be why it hurts so much. After that, it slows down and eventually stops, but you'll need the rags for about a week."
gloss: A newspaper or magazine, especially one whose journalism is considered to be of poor quality.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
slang
examples: "You must behave yourself, dear. Mr. Malone is a Pressman. He will have it all in his rag to-morrow, and sell an extra dozen among our neighbors."
gloss: A poor, low-ranking kicker.
pos: noun
examples: I have ace-four on my hand. In other words, I have ace-rag.
gloss: A curtain of various kinds.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A person suffering from exhaustion or lack of energy.
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: "It took it out of me, though. I'm a rag this morning." "They work you too hard, dear."
gloss: A banknote.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
slang
examples: What was he at, do you think? Counting bank-notes; he had bundles of them. […] Well, Guv'nor, he stood up by-and-by, and taking the bundles of rags, the big uns in one hand, tother ones in tother, he toddled out of the room; […] So I tucked my violin under my arm, and sallied out after the old budgy ragman, determined to ease him of his load at the very first lonesome corner I could track him to.
gloss: An uneven vertical margin (of a block of type).
pos: noun
examples: We always leave rag on article typeset for the web.
gloss: To decorate (a wall, etc.) by applying paint with a rag.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To become tattered.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To menstruate.
pos: verb
tags: euphemistic
intransitive
slang
sometimes
vulgar
Derived words: bean rag
boiled rag
chew the rag
cumrag
cuntrag
dishrag
do-rag
dustrag
fag rag
glad rags
head rag
in rag order
in rags
jam rag
jizzrag
lose one's rag
main rag
oily rag
on the rag
rag and bone man
rag-and-bone man
rag-and-bone shop
ragazine
ragbag
rag bagger
ragbond
rag book
rag-box
rag-chewing
rag doll
ragfish
ragged
ragger
raggie
raggle
raggy
raghead
raghorn
raghouse
ragleaf
ragless
raglike
ragman
rag paper
ragpick
ragpicker
rag pudding
rag race
rag-roll
rag-rolling
rag rug
rags and tatters
ragseller
rag-shop
ragsorter
ragsorting
rags to riches
rags-to-riches
ragtag
ragtop
rag trade
ragweed
ragworm
ragwort
red-ragger
red rag to a bull
red rag
shag-rag
shakerag
shaving rag
shitrag
smell of an oily rag
snotrag
snot rag
stab-rag
stone-rag
tag and rag
tag-rag
toe rag
toe-rag
toerag
washrag
wet rag
rag off
rag out
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