rabble

rab·ble ¹  (rbl)

n.

1. A tumultuous crowd; a mob.

2. The lowest or coarsest class of people. Often used with the.

3. A group of persons regarded with contempt: "After subsisting on the invisible margins of the art scene ... he was 'discovered' in the mid-80's, along with a crowd of like-minded rabble from the East Village" (Richard B. Woodward).

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[Middle English.]

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rab·ble ²  (rbl)

n.

1. An iron bar used to stir and skim molten iron in puddling.

2. Any of various similar tools or mechanically operated devices used in roasting or refining furnaces.

tr.v. rab·bled, rab·bling, rab·bles

To stir or skim (molten iron) with an iron bar.

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[French râble, fire shovel, from Old French roable, from Medieval Latin rotbulum, from Latin rutbulum, from rutus, past participle of ruere, to rake up, tumble down.]

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rabbler n.

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rabble¹

n

1. a disorderly crowd; mob

the Contemptuous the common people

[C14 (in the sense: a pack of animals): of uncertain origin; perhaps related to Middle Dutch rabbelen to chatter, rattle]

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rabble²

n

(Engineering / Metallurgy) Also called rabbler an iron tool or mechanical device for stirring, mixing, or skimming a molten charge in a roasting furnace

vb

(Engineering / Metallurgy) (tr) to stir, mix, or skim (the molten charge) in a roasting furnace

[from French râble, from Latin rutābulum rake for a furnace, from ruere to rake, dig up]

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Rabble a pack, string, or swarm of animals or insects; a crowd or array of disorderly people, 1513; the low or disorderly part of the populace; a disorderly collection; a confused medley.

Examples: rabble of appetites, passions and opinions, 1768; of bees; of books, 1803; of butterflies; of ceremonies, 1562; of licentious deities, 1741; of discourse, 1656; of dishes; of flies, 1847; of friars, 1560; of gnats; of insects; of monks, 1560; of murderers, 1792; of opinions, 1768; of passions, 1861; of people, 1635; of mean and light persons, 1568; of pictures, 1581; of scholastic precepts, 1589; of priests, 1529; of readers, 1691; of reasons, 1641; of remedies, 1633; of schoolmen, 1671; of strangers, 1840; of uncommanded traditions, 1545; of womenhood, 1847; of words, 1388.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	rabble - a disorderly crowd of people         mob, rout crowd - a large number of things or people considered together; "a crowd of insects assembled around the flowers" lynch mob - a mob that kills a person for some presumed offense without legal authority
	2.	rabble - disparaging terms for the common people ragtag, ragtag and bobtail, riffraff common people, folk, folks - people in general (often used in the plural); "they're just country folk"; "folks around here drink moonshine"; "the common people determine the group character and preserve its customs from one generation to the next" scum, trash - worthless people

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rabble

noun

1. mob, crowd, herd, swarm, horde, throng, canaille a rabble of gossip columnists

2. (Derogatory) commoners, proletariat, common people, riffraff, crowd, masses, trash (chiefly U.S. & Canad.), scum, lower classes, populace, peasantry, dregs, hoi polloi, the great unwashed (derogatory), canaille, lumpenproletariat, commonalty They are forced to socialise with the rabble.
commoners elite, upper classes, aristocracy, nobility, bourgeoisie, gentry, high society

Translations

rabble [ˈræbl] N (= disorderly crowd) → gentío m, muchedumbre f, mogollón m (Sp)
the rabble (= uncultured people) → la chusma
a rabble of → una multitud turbulenta de

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rabble [ˈræb^əl] n (pejorative) → populace f
rabble-rousing [ˈræb^əlraʊzɪŋ] n
Critics have accused him of rabble-rousing → Ses détracteurs l'ont accusé de fomenter des troubles.

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rabble

n (= disorderly crowd) → lärmende Menge, lärmender Haufen (inf); (pej: = lower classes) → Pöbel m

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rabble:

rabble-rouser

n → Hetzer(in), Volksverhetzer(in) m(f)

rabble-rousing

n → Hetze f, → Volksverhetzung f

adj → (auf)hetzerisch

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rabble [ˈræbl] n → confusione f di gente
the rabble (pej) → il popolino, la plebaglia

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rabble [ˈræbl] n → confusione f di gente
the rabble (pej) → il popolino, la plebaglia

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rabble

n rabble [ˈrӕbl]

a noisy, disorderly crowd. gespuis رَعاع، غَوْغاء тълпа dav hob der Pöbel όχλος, συρφετός gentío, muchedumbre jõuk اراذل و اوباش roskajoukko cohue אֲסַפסוּף शोर भरी अव्यवस्थित भीड़ masa ljudi, svjetina csőcselék perusuh skríll, múgur calca, ressa やじうま 무질서한 군중 triukšminga minia pūlis; drūzma hingar gepeupel pøbel, rakkerpakk motłoch turba gloa­tă толпа dav množica bučna rulja larmande folkhop ฝูงชนที่วุ่นวาย düzensiz kalabalık 烏合之眾，暴民 натовп بے ترتیب مجمع đám đông lộn xộn 乌合之众