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Definition of Ragtag and bobtail
1. Noun. Disparaging terms for the common people.
Generic synonyms: Common People, Folk, Folks
Specialized synonyms: Scum, Trash
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ragtag And Bobtail
Literary usage of Ragtag and bobtail
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Roughing it by Mark Twain (1913)
"Folks '11 tell you 't I've always ben kind o' offish and partic'lar for a gal
that's raised in the woods, and I am, with the ragtag and bobtail, ..."
2. The Song of Songs: Das Hohe Lied by Hermann Sudermann (1909)
"We're ragtag and bobtail both of us, at any rate.'' "I'm not ragtag and bobtail!"
cried Lilly, flaring up. "I have pride and a sense of honour, ..."
3. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1893)
"Finally comes the last march-past of the beaten forces of winter, the ragtag and
bobtail of the great Arctic army that comes straggling down the river when ..."
4. Library Journal by American Library Association, Library Association, Richard Rogers Bowker, Charles Ammi Cutter (1908)
"ment of men uniformed and armed alike is surely less picturesque than a ragtag
and bobtail in nondescript garb with grandfather's muskets, ..."
5. The Bookman (1899)
"... nor Town Meeting telling me what I may do or not do at Greenwood, any more
than I let the ragtag and bobtail tell me what I was to buy in '69. ..."
6. The Gentleman's Magazine (1871)
"But it really is time to protest against the growing eloquence of the ragtag and
bobtail of the House. In the shires, at agricultural dinners and borough ..."
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