ragga
English edit
Etymology edit
Clipping of raggamuffin, variant of ragamuffin (“troublemaker”), influenced by reggae.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ragga (uncountable)
- (music) A subgenre of reggae and dancehall influenced by hip hop and digital production techniques such as sampling. [from 1980s]
- 1993 August, David Eimer, “Reel to Reel”, in The Wire, number 114, →ISSN, page 52:
- Tosh's brand of roots reggae, with its emphasis on uplifting anthems and melodic riffs, now sounds as dated as The Wailers' earliest incarnation as a straight-up ska band, especially when listened to alongside the shuddering bass of most contemporary ragga tracks.
- 2016, Linda Dailey Paulson, “Ragga”, in Dave DiMartino, editor, Music in the 20th Century, volume 1, Routledge, →ISBN, page 514:
- A sub-genre of reggae, ragga is a modern Jamaican sound with ties to the oldest traditional music of that island-nation. The name is taken from the word “raggamuffin”, a term used for disenfranchised youth. One popular ragga singer called Half Pint said, “A lot of people interpret raggamuffin as if it [is][sic] a criminal morality.”
- 2019, Wiley et al (lyrics and music), “Boasty”:
- Fling a ragga riddim like it's '03
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Anagrams edit
Italian edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ragga m (uncountable)
- Clipping of raggamuffin (“ragga”).
Further reading edit
- ragga in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
Definitions 1-3 originate from ragg (“fur, bristles”). Definitions 4-5 are associated with the raggare subculture, possibly from trucker slang (åkarslang) ragga (upp) ("to pick something or someone up").[1]
Verb edit
ragga (present raggar, preterite raggade, supine raggat, imperative ragga)
- (dialect, Småland: gå å ragga) to go around untidy, uncombed, hair hanging down[2]
- (reflexive, dialect, Hälsingland: ragga sej) to regret[3]
- (ragga till) to bristle[4]
- to search, look for, hit on, pick up (women, in cars)[5]
- Han raggade på henne
- He was hitting on her
- De åkte runt och raggade
- They were driving around trying to pick up women
- att ragga upp någon
- to pick someone up
- Synonym: (hit on) stöta på
- (figuratively) to search, look for, recruit (sponsors, supporters, new members)
- Vi försöker ragga sponsorer
- We're trying to pick up sponsors
- 2009, Sydöstran (newspaper), December 2
- BTH raggar studenter i Lettland och Litauen
- Blekinge Institute of Technology recruits students in Latvia and Lithuania
Usage notes edit
Chiefly used purely to mean hit on in (sense 4), independent of raggare culture.
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of ragga (weak)
Active | Passive | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
Infinitive | ragga | raggas | ||
Supine | raggat | raggats | ||
Imperative | ragga | — | ||
Imper. plural1 | raggen | — | ||
Present | Past | Present | Past | |
Indicative | raggar | raggade | raggas | raggades |
Ind. plural1 | ragga | raggade | raggas | raggades |
Subjunctive2 | ragge | raggade | ragges | raggades |
Participles | ||||
Present participle | raggande | |||
Past participle | raggad | |||
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs. |
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References edit
- ^ Raggare in Våra ord: deras uttal och ursprung (1979 edition)
- ^ RAGG: RAGGA 2 in Johan Ernst Rietz, Svenskt dialektlexikon (1862–1867)
- ^ RAGGA SEJ in Johan Ernst Rietz, Svenskt dialektlexikon (1862–1867)
- ^ "Ragg: avledning Ragga" in ragga in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB) (letter R edited in 1956)
- ^ ragga in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)