raff

Definitions


[], (Noun)

Definitions:
- Worthless material; trash, rubbish, refuse. Also occasionally: miscellaneous material, odds and ends.

- People of the lowest social class considered collectively; disreputable or undesirable people.

- With the: the most disreputable or the lowest element of a class, community, etc.; the common run of people; the rabble.

- A base, worthless person; a member of the riff-raff.


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Origin:
late Middle English (in an earlier sense). Apparently partly short for riff and raff one and all, everyone, everything, and partly (especially in later use) shortened from riff-raff




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