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riffraff

[ rif-raf ]

noun

  1. people, or a group of people, regarded as disreputable or worthless:

    a pack of riffraff.

  2. the lowest classes; rabble:

    the riffraff of the city.

  3. trash; rubbish.


adjective

  1. worthless, disreputable, or trashy.

riffraff

/ 藞谤瑟蹿藢谤忙蹿 /

noun

  1. worthless people, esp collectively; rabble
  2. dialect.
    worthless rubbish
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of riffraff1

1425鈥75; late Middle English rif and raf every particle, things of small value < Old French rif et raf, formed on rifler to spoil ( rifle 2 ), raffler to ravage, snatch away
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of riffraff1

C15 rif and raf , from Old French rif et raf ; related to rifler to plunder, and rafle a sweeping up; see rifle 虏, raffle
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The first half of the film finds our riffraff joining forces to escape Valentina鈥檚 death trap; the second is a parable about mental illness where the metaphors take command over the plot.

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He has some friends 鈥 acquaintances, really 鈥 whom he hates, mentally labeling them 鈥渢he riffraff, the vulgarians, the slobs.鈥

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She associated Georgia鈥檚 capital city with 鈥渃rime鈥 and 鈥渞iffraff,鈥 similar to how Trump once disparaged Atlanta as 鈥渃rime infested鈥 and 鈥渇alling apart.鈥

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Just before the riots he had also responded to a rowdy reception committee in one banlieue by calling them racaille - riffraff.

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Indeed, this 鈥渟avage,鈥 as Shakespeare took pains to note in his complicated depiction of Caliban, is a good deal more civilized than the drunken riffraff with whom he falls into cahoots.

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