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Meaning of "raggle-taggle" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD RAGGLE-TAGGLE

Augmented form of ragtag.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF RAGGLE-TAGGLE

raggle-taggle  [ˈræɡəlˈtæɡəl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF RAGGLE-TAGGLE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Raggle-Taggle is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES RAGGLE-TAGGLE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of raggle-taggle in the English dictionary

The definition of raggle-taggle in the dictionary is motley or unkempt.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH RAGGLE-TAGGLE


angle
ˈæŋɡəl
bedaggle
bɪˈdæɡəl
bedraggle
bɪˈdræɡəl
daggle
ˈdæɡəl
draggle
ˈdræɡəl
eagle
ˈiːɡəl
gaggle
ˈɡæɡəl
Google
ˈɡuːɡəl
haggle
ˈhæɡəl
illegal
ɪˈliːɡəl
jungle
ˈdʒʌŋɡəl
legal
ˈliːɡəl
Portugal
ˈpɔːtjʊɡəl
raggle
ˈræɡəl
single
ˈsɪŋɡəl
straggle
ˈstræɡəl
struggle
ˈstrʌɡəl
toggle
ˈtɒɡəl
triangle
ˈtraɪˌæŋɡəl
waggle
ˈwæɡəl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE RAGGLE-TAGGLE

ragg
ragga
ragged
ragged robin
ragged school
raggedly
raggedness
raggedy
raggee
raggery
ragging
raggle
raggy
raghead
ragi
raging
ragingly
ragini
raglan
ragman

WORDS THAT END LIKE RAGGLE-TAGGLE

boggle
boondoggle
class struggle
for a giggle
giggle
goggle
hornswoggle
jiggle
joggle
juggle
muggle
niggle
power struggle
smuggle
snuggle
squiggle
the class struggle
the struggle
wiggle
wriggle

Synonyms and antonyms of raggle-taggle in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «raggle-taggle» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF RAGGLE-TAGGLE

Find out the translation of raggle-taggle to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of raggle-taggle from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «raggle-taggle» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

raggle - taggle
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

raggle - taggle
570 millions of speakers

English

raggle-taggle
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

raggle - taggle
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

raggle - taggle
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

raggle - taggle
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

raggle - taggle
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

raggle-taggle
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

raggle - taggle
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Raggle-taggle
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

raggle - taggle
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

愛人- taggle
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

raggle - taggle
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Raggle-taggle
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

raggle - taggle
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

raggle-taggle
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

रॅगेल-टॅगले
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

raggle-saçak bir
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

raggle - taggle
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Raggle - Taggle
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

raggle - taggle
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

raggle - taggle
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ανοίξουμε ένα κανάλι - taggle
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

raggle - taggle
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

raggle - taggle
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

raggle - taggle
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of raggle-taggle

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «RAGGLE-TAGGLE»

The term «raggle-taggle» is regularly used and occupies the 57.987 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «RAGGLE-TAGGLE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «raggle-taggle» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «raggle-taggle» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about raggle-taggle

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «RAGGLE-TAGGLE»

Discover the use of raggle-taggle in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to raggle-taggle and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Grandma Frump Kitty and the Raggle-Taggle Gang
Grandma Frump Kitty and the Raggle-Taggle Gang is the story of a motley crew of feral cats living in the backyard of a benevolent woman's house on W Street in Sacramento, California.
Barbara O'Donnell, 2011
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99 Cent Adventure Time Stories The Raggle-Taggle Gypsy
he. Raggle-Taggle. Gypsy. By. ALYS ALLEN HE sunshine of June lay upon Brackenbrier Manor, gazing in Tudor dignity from above its terraced rose gardens down upon the motor-crowded highway below, and the gleaming Hudson beyond.
Alys Allen, 2014
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Adventure, Horror, Mystery Classics Best Seller's for 99 ...
Alys Allen. anxiety to know the murderer. all the thousands were to Grayson. 10STORY DETECTIVE 6 The new theory was that Bligh had Cord's death might be his. known he was going to murder Cord, so he Bligh hunched over, chin inhands, ...
Alys Allen, 2014
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Sam Henry's Songs of the People
15 "The Whistlin' Gypsy Rover" Munnelly Ceol 1972:6-8 "The Raggle-Taggle ..." Peirce 1979:46, a 1- stanza fragment. Planxty 1976:35 "Raggle-Taggle Gypsy" ( see Planxty rec. ) Shields 1981:66-7 (#20) "The Dark-Eyed Gipsy" Shields/ Shields ...
Gale Huntington, Lani Herrmann, 2010
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Favorite Poems Old and New: Selected for Boys and Girls by H'F'
'Twas late last night when my lord came home, Inquiring for his lady, O. The servants said on every hand, “She's gone with the Raggle, Taggle Gypsies, O." “ Oh, saddle for me my milk-white steed, Oh, saddle for me my pony, 0, That I may ride ...
Helen Josephine Ferris, 1957
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A Child's Own Book of Verse, Book Two
“What makes you leave your house and lands? What makes you leave your money, O? What makes you leave your new-wedded lord To go with the Raggle, Taggle Gypsies, O?” “What care I for my house and lands? What care I for my money, ...
‎2006
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Models for Writing: 5
uses dialogue repeated phrases 'O saddle to me my milk-white steed, And go and fetch my pony, O. That I may ride and seek my bride, Who is gone with the raggle taggle gypsies, O'. O he rode high and he rode low. He rode through wood  ...
Chris Buckton, Anne Sanderson, 2000
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Folk Songs of Middle Tennessee: The George Boswell Collection
It was late last night when my lord came home, Inquiring for his lady, o; The servants said on every hand, "She's off with those raggle-taggle gypsies, o." 4. " Go saddle for me my milk-white steed, Go and fetch my pony-o. For I must ride and ...
Charles K. Wolfe, 1997
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Gypsies and the British Imagination, 1807-1930
The elements that Lawrence takes from both Tennyson's poem and Eliot's novel were also readily gleaned from the well-known Irish folk song " The Raggle Taggle Gypsy," in which a lord's bride runs off w ith a wandering Gypsy. When the  ...
Deborah Epstein Nord, 2008
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Molly Zero
The. Raggle-Taggle. Gypsies. You wake in the night. You're disoriented; for a moment you think you're back in your room in Fellbarrow Road. You go to swing your legs out of bed but you're already lying on the floor. You sit up, and bang your ...
Keith Roberts, 1984

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «RAGGLE-TAGGLE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term raggle-taggle is used in the context of the following news items.
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British pilots bombing Isis are just part of a longstanding military …
Labour support is not a given: there are at least goals of a sort in Iraq – air strikes in support of Iraq's raggle-taggle army and the more efficient Kurdish forces ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
2
Book biz gets novel treatment in literary publisher's debut
Stern has assembled an editorial staff that is "a raggle-taggle (bunch) of talented misfits... united in subservient loyalty to their larger-than-life leader." Most of the ... «Winnipeg Free Press, Jul 15»
3
TV Review: Falling Skies, Powers
"I wish I had a better story to tell you, because let's face it my sudden return here is a little freaky," said Tom later as he addressed the raggle-taggle militia of ... «Stuff.co.nz, Jun 15»
4
Raggle-taggle Eskies for Monroe's Live
The Eskies come to Monroe's Live on Saturday, June 6. The Dublin based five-piece released their debut album, After the Sherry went Round, last year. «Connacht Tribune Group, May 15»
5
The Loafing Heroes: raggle-taggle songs about Casement and …
The Loafing Heroes sing the poetry of WB Yeats and TS Eliot, and the subject matter of their songs ranges from Irish revolutionary heroes to the devastation of ... «Irish Times, Dec 14»
6
Culture Club, Heaven, review: 'joyous'
The teenagers who queued under the railway arches that summer to see the raggle-taggle band of new romantic oddballs coming out of the city's Blitz club ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Oct 14»
7
The Waterboys, New Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham
... guys who recorded these folk, gospel, country and bluegrass flavoured tunes and has hit the road for a proper celebration of their “raggle-taggle gypsy” years. «The Arts Desk, Dec 13»
8
Graffiti's grandmasters make their mark
Look out of the window of a train as it chugs through the outskirts of any major city and what you see is always the same: a raggle-taggle mixture of the backs of ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Aug 12»
9
Bunker Hill fashion shoot
Bunker Hill's nostalgic charm–with its now raggle-taggle gingerbread houses that were Los Angeles' pride in an earlier era–will give way to high rise ... «Los Angeles Times, Apr 12»
10
Four Lions, review
... being ideologically honed, precision-bladed revolutionaries, are just as likely to be a raggle-taggle Dad's Army of chancers, mouthy dossers and chumpheads. «Telegraph.co.uk, May 10»

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« EDUCALINGO. Raggle-Taggle [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/raggle-taggle>. Apr 2024 ».
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