raggle-taggle
English
WOTD – 11 August 2011
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɹaɡ(ə)ltaɡ(ə)l/
Audio (AU) (file)
Adjective
raggle-taggle (comparative more raggle-taggle, superlative most raggle-taggle)
- Disorderly, in a messy or chaotic state; ragged.
- 1945, "Linked at Last", Time, 5 Feb 1945:
- The cocky little foot soldiers who had mopped up the north Burma jungle saw a knot of blue-grey, raggle-taggle men at the junction and wanted to fire on them.
- 2000, George RR Martin, A Storm of Swords, Bantam 2011, p. 574:
- The raggle-taggle host of freedmen dwarfed her own, but they were more burden than benefit.
- 2011, Simon Jenkins, The Guardian, 22 Mar 2011:
- The prime minister must know that the only way to achieve his stated goal is to topple Gaddafi, and his intelligence will have informed him that the raggle-taggle army in Benghazi cannot do it for him.
- 1945, "Linked at Last", Time, 5 Feb 1945:
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