tag-rag+and+bobtail
11tagrag and bobtail. — See ragtag and bobtail. Also, tag, rag, and bobtail …
12tagrag and bobtail — noun see tag, rag, and bobtail …
13ragtag and bobtail — noun disparaging terms for the common people • Syn: ↑rabble, ↑riffraff, ↑ragtag • Hypernyms: ↑folk, ↑folks, ↑common people • Hyponyms: ↑trash …
14ragtag and bobtail — the riffraff; rabble: The ragtag and bobtail of every nation poured into the frontier in search of gold. Also, rag, tag, and bobtail; tagrag and bobtail. [1810 20] * * * …
15ragtag and bobtail — rag′tag and bob′tail n. the riffraff or rabble • Etymology: 1810–20 …
16Bobtail — Bob tail , n. [Bob + tail.] An animal (as a horse or dog) with a short tail. [1913 Webster] {Rag, tag, and bobtail}, the rabble. [1913 Webster] …
17ragtag and bobtail — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun A group of persons regarded as the lowest class: dreg (often used in plural), lumpenpro letanat, rabble, riffraff, trash. Slang: scum. Idioms: scum of the earth, tag and rag, the great unwashed. See OVER, RICH …
18tag and rag — noun : rag, tag, and bobtail shout of tag and rag, and march of rank and file Robert Southey …
19ragtag — 1820, from RAG (Cf. rag) (n.) + TAG (Cf. tag) (n.); originally in expression rag tag and bobtail the rabble (tag rag and bobtail is found in 1650s), from bobtail cur, 1610s. Tag and rag was very common in 16 17th c. [OED] …
20canaille — n. [Fr.] Populace, rabble, mob, riffraff, the vulgar, the crowd, vulgar herd, the ignoble vulgar, low people, lowest class of people, the multitude, the million, scum of society, dregs of society, ignobile vulgus, rag tag, tag rag, tag rag and… …