raggle-taggle

raggle-taggle

(ˈræɡəlˈtæɡəl)
adj
motley or unkempt: a raggle-taggle band of volunteers and students.
[augmented form of ragtag]
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rag•gle-tag•gle

(ˈræg əlˈtæg əl)

adj.
motley; ragtag.
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Translations

raggle-taggle

adj gipsyzerlumpt; army, groupzusammengewürfelt
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References in periodicals archive
It's here where the backing dancers come to play, dressed in the style of gear which suggests a raggle-taggle band of outsiders who come together to support Kylie on her adventures.
Edith Walton's review of the expanded edition in the New York Times provides a typical example of this conflation: "Apparently Miss Porter is thoroughly familiar with the raggle-taggle of American radicals, artists, and writers who haunt Mexico City" (1935).
The electorate trail sheep-like behind a raggle-taggle of hereditary feudals and fading sportsmen all with a leavening of clerics.
WELL, another Wednesday has come and gone and I have dutifully carried out my "raggle-taggle" collection of recycling bags and boxes and then rounded them up again.
IN 1965, LUIS VALDEZ AND A GROUP of farmworkers founded the first theatre of its kind in this country: a raggle-taggle troupe dedicated to educating farmworkers about the need for a union.
I will vote with my heart, but I know I'm in good company, unlike the raggle-taggle bunch of rank amateurs running the Leave campaign.
We will probably never know how many lives were ruined by these officers using a hammer to crack a nut of raggle-taggle protest groups.
A precocious child, she learned to read on her own at age five while bedridden with pneumonia, and shared a special "fantasy life" with her beloved paternal Irish grandmother, Mary Agnes, who recounted old ballads and stories such as the "the Raggle-Taggle Gypsies" (8-9).
THE prohibitive cost of policing that EDL raggle-taggle assortment - most of whom chose to protest in a bar - was wasted.
A self-called "raggle-taggle Gypsie," musician and musicologist, political writer, participant in many of the crucial global affairs of the interwar period, a fascist fellow-traveler who supported Mussolini's regime for several of its early years and an Irish/ British patriot involved in the war effort against Hitler at the same time, prolific author, controversial speaker and global traveler.
Most of all, I shall continue to buy my Christmas gifts and treats from the loyal, beleaguered shopkeepers who trade in this city all year round rather than from a raggle-taggle mob of itinerant chancers here to line their pockets, then disappear for another 12 months.
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