rag

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɹæɡ/

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• Rhymes: -æɡ

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.

rag (plural rags)

1. (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.

2. 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, 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.

3. 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

4. A ragged edge in metalworking.
5. (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

6. (slang, derogatory) A newspaper, magazine.
7. (poker) A poor, low-ranking kicker.[1]

   I have ace-four on my hand. In other words, I have ace-rag.

rag (third-person singular simple present rags, present participle ragging, simple past and past participle ragged)

1. (intransitive) To become tattered.

Unknown origin; perhaps the same word as Etymology 1, above.

rag (plural rags)

1. 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.

• coral rag
• Kentish rag
• ragwork

rag (third-person singular simple present rags, present participle ragging, simple past and past participle ragged)

1. To break (ore) into lumps for sorting.
2. To cut or dress roughly, as a grindstone.

Origin uncertain.

rag (third-person singular simple present rags, present participle ragging, simple past and past participle ragged)

1. To scold or tell off; to torment; to banter.
2. (Britain slang) To drive a car or another vehicle in a hard, fast or unsympathetic manner.
3. To tease or torment, especially at a university; to bully, to haze.

• bullirag
• rag the puck
• rag on

rag (plural rags)

1. (dated) A prank or practical joke.
2. (Britain, Ireland) A society run by university students for the purpose of charitable fundraising.

• rag day
• rag week

Perhaps from ragged. Compare later ragtime.

rag (plural rags)

1. (obsolete, US) An informal dance party featuring music played by African-American string bands. [19th c.]
2. A ragtime song, dance or piece of music. [from 19th c.]

rag (third-person singular simple present rags, present participle ragging, simple past and past participle ragged)

1. (transitive, informal) To play or compose (a piece, melody, etc.) in syncopated time.
2. (intransitive, informal) To dance to ragtime music.
3. (music, obsolete) To add syncopation (to a tune) and thereby make it appropriate for a ragtime song.[2]

• ARG, Arg., GAR, Gra, RGA, arg, gar

rag

1. before

Unknown, only found to related to West Frisian reach, though possibly more distantly to Old Saxon raginna (“rough hair”), Old English ragu (“moss”).

• IPA^(key): /rɑx/

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rag n (plural raggen, diminutive ragje n)

1. spider silk

• spinrag

• ragfijn

From English rag.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɛɡ/

rag n (plural rags, diminutive ragje n)

1. A piece of ragtime music.

rag

1. Imperative singular of ragen.
2. (colloquial) First-person singular present of ragen.

Back-formation from ragad. Created during the Hungarian language reform which took place in the 18th–19th centuries.

• IPA^(key): [ˈrɒɡ]

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• Hyphenation: rag

rag (plural ragok)

1. (grammar) suffix, affix, case ending

• ragos
• ragoz

(Compound words):

• esetrag

• Appendix:Hungarian suffixes

rag m (plural rager)

1. (Föhr-Amrum) (anatomy) back

rag

1. stiff, rigid, inflexible
2. stubborn, obstinate

• rag-mhuinealach

rag ?

1. man