rag
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
- (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɹæɡ/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -æɡ
Etymology 1Edit
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.
NounEdit
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, especially one used for cleaning, patching, etc.; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred or 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.
- 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, H.L. Brækstad, transl., Folk and Fairy Tales, page 191:
- "'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."
- (singular or plural, slang) Sanitary napkins, pads, or other materials used to absorb menstrual discharge.
- 2020, Pip Williams, The Dictionary of Lost Words, page 56:
- "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."
- (slang, derogatory) A newspaper or magazine, especially one whose journalism is considered to be of poor quality.
- Synonym: fish wrap
- 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
- "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."
- (poker) A poor, low-ranking kicker.[1]
- I have ace-four on my hand. In other words, I have ace-rag.
- (slang, theater) A curtain of various kinds.
- (dated) A person suffering from exhaustion or lack of energy.
- 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
- "It took it out of me, though. I'm a rag this morning." "They work you too hard, dear."
Derived termsEdit
- 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
- rags to riches, rags-to-riches
- ragtag
- ragtop
- rag trade
- ragweed
- ragworm
- ragwort
- red-ragger
- red rag to a bull, red rag
- shag-rag
- smell of an oily rag
- snot rag
- tag-rag
- toe rag
- washrag
- wet rag
TranslationsEdit
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VerbEdit
rag (third-person singular simple present rags, present participle ragging, simple past and past participle ragged)
- (transitive) To decorate (a wall, etc.) by applying paint with a rag.
- (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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Etymology 2Edit
Unknown origin; perhaps the same word as Etymology 1, above.
NounEdit
rag (countable and uncountable, 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.
Derived termsEdit
VerbEdit
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 3Edit
Uncertain.
VerbEdit
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 termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
NounEdit
rag (plural rags)
- (dated) A prank or practical joke.
- 1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, When the World Screamed[2]:
- The rascal winked and grinned. 'There are always and means,' said he. 'But don't blame your foreman. He thought it was just a rag. I swapped clothes with his assistant, and in I came.'
- (UK, Ireland) A society run by university students for the purpose of charitable fundraising.
Derived termsEdit
Etymology 4Edit
Perhaps from ragged. Compare later ragtime.
NounEdit
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.]
TranslationsEdit
VerbEdit
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]
ReferencesEdit
- ^ 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.
AnagramsEdit
BretonEdit
EtymologyEdit
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PrepositionEdit
rag
DutchEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Unknown, only found to be related to West Frisian reach, though possibly more distantly to Old Saxon raginna (“rough hair”), Old English ragu (“moss”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
rag n (plural raggen, diminutive ragje n)
SynonymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
rag n (plural rags, diminutive ragje n)
- a piece of ragtime music
GermanEdit
VerbEdit
rag
HungarianEdit
EtymologyEdit
Back-formation from ragad. Created during the Hungarian language reform, which took place in the 18th–19th centuries.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
rag (plural ragok)
- (grammar) terminal inflectional suffix/affix, termination, ending (for nominals, mostly case endings; for verbs and postpositions, personal suffixes; almost exclusively at the very end of a word in Hungarian)
DeclensionEdit
Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony) | ||
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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 |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
ragé | ragoké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
ragéi | ragokéi |
Possessive forms of rag | ||
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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 termsEdit
See alsoEdit
Further readingEdit
- (suffix): rag in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
- ([regional] a kind of beam or a part of the roof): rag in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
North FrisianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Frisian *hregg, from Proto-West Germanic *hrugi.
NounEdit
rag m (plural rager)
- (Föhr-Amrum) (anatomy) back
Scottish GaelicEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Celtic *razgo-, from Proto-Indo-European *Hreyǵ- (“to bind”), see also Middle High German ric (“string, band”) and Old Irish riag (“a type of torture”).
AdjectiveEdit
rag
Derived termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911), “rag”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, →ISBN
SomaliEdit
NounEdit
rag ?
ZhuangEdit
PronunciationEdit
- (Standard Zhuang) IPA(key): /ɣaːk˧/
- Tone numbers: rag8
- Hyphenation: rag
Etymology 1Edit
From Proto-Tai *C̬.raːkᴰ (“root”). Cognate with Thai ราก (râak), Northern Thai ᩁᩣ᩠ᨠ, Khün ᩁᩣ᩠ᨠ, Lao ຮາກ (hāk), Lü ᦣᦱᧅ (haak), Tai Dam ꪭꪱꪀ, Shan ႁၢၵ်ႈ (hāak), Ahom 𑜍𑜀𑜫 (rak), Nong Zhuang laeg, Zuojiang Zhuang lag, Saek ร̄าก.
NounEdit
rag (1957–1982 spelling rag)
Etymology 2Edit
From Proto-Tai *C̬.laːkᴰ (“to pull; to drag”). Cognate with Thai ลาก (lâak), Lao ລາກ (lāk), Shan လၢၵ်ႈ (lāak), Ahom 𑜎𑜀𑜫 (lak), Nong Zhuang laeg, Zuojiang Zhuang lag.
VerbEdit
rag (1957–1982 spelling rag)