rabble

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The former possess friends to help them; for the rabble is always a numerous body which holds well together.

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  1. noun A tumultuous crowd; a mob.
  2. noun The lowest or coarsest class of people. Often used with the.
  3. noun 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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  1. Middle English.
  2. French râble, fire shovel, from Old French roable, from Medieval Latin rotābulum, from Latin rutābulum, from rutus, past participle of ruere, to rake up, tumble down.

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  1. Also ravel; from Middle English rablen, speak confusedly; cf. Old Dutch rabbelen, chatter, trifle, toy, = German dial. rabbeln, robbeln, chatter, prattle; cf. Middle Latin rabulare, scold, from Latin rabula, a brawling advocate, a pettifogger. Cf. Greek ῤαβάσσ, σ1ειν, make a noise, Irish rapal, noise, rapach, noisy, Gaelic rapair, a noisy fellow. The word may have been in part confused or associated with ramble; cf. dial, rabbling, winding, rambling.
  2. Early modern English rable; from Middle English rabel; cf. rabble, v.
  3. from rabble, n.
  4. from Old French roable, French râble, an implement for stirring or mixing, a poker, etc., dial. redable, from Latin rutabulum, Middle Latin also rotabulum, a poker or shovel.
 

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