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raff [ræf] n Archaic or dialect 1. rubbish; refuse 2. rabble or riffraff [perhaps from Old French rafle a snatching up; compare raffle, riffraff] Raff a promiscuous pile; a jumble; a rabble. See also mob, riff-raff. Examples: raff of errors, 1677; of fellows, 1826; the raff or refuse of the river, 1838. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Whatever Morgan and Raff are willing to pay for it. So I says, a raff is what I's arter; it doan' MAKE no track. Jostling with unemployed labourers of the lowest class, ballast-heavers, coal-whippers, brazen women, ragged children, and the raff and refuse of the river, he makes his way with difficulty along, assailed by offensive sights and smells from the narrow alleys which branch off on the right and left, and deafened by the clash of ponderous waggons that bear great piles of merchandise from the stacks of warehouses that rise from every corner. |
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