raggy
Raglike; like a ragRaglike; like a rag.
» His towels are raggy and dirty.
Amastan · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
4 sensesRaglike; like a rag.
Scruffy; tending to dress in rags.
Similar in style to ragtime music.
(Yorkshire, dialectal, especially, obsolete, possibly)Foggy, misty (and typically cold), with drizzling rain.
Examples
4 sentencesHis towels are raggy and dirty.
He was barefooted, and his clothes were thin and raggy.
He has raggy towels.
Karl wore raggy jeans.
Origin
From Middle English raggy, from Old English raggiġ; equivalent to rag + -y. From rag + -yFrom Middle English raggy, from Old English raggiġ; equivalent to rag + -y.
From rag + -y, rag being a dialectal (northern England) word for a fog or mist with drizzling rain, related to dialectal Danish rag (“sea vapour”). Compare roke, rawk, from a word for smoke (compare Swedish rök (“smoke”)), which may or may not be related.
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Forms
raggier, raggiestWord family
1 related wordsLessons for this word
2 lessons- A2Comparatives — Because it has a comparative form
- A2Superlatives — Because it has a superlative form
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.