Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A bag for storing rags.
- n. A motley collection; a hodgepodge.
Wiktionary
- n. A collection containing a variety of miscellaneous things.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a motley assortment of things
- n. a bag in which rags are kept
Examples
“Some short time ago, I stumbled upon a delightful blog known as the ragbag, which I quickly subscribed to after reading about five posts, in no small part because reading it reminds me of the sort of strange conversations I used to have in college with my suitemate and fellow mathemagician.”
“Observing Japan's Tobias Harris, who is cited as a major source in the story, disagrees with that overall assessment implicit in words like "ragbag" and "set adrift" and believes that the significance of the internal differences has been blown up beyond reasonable proportions.”
“The contrast was stark, and it made the soldiers look like the proverbial "ragbag" of the group.”
“So I hope voters will vote for one, and not ragbag independent candidates.”
“So, as Fianna Fáil abandoned the ragbag of right-wingers with whom they sat in the European Parliament in order to join a major group, the British Conservatives are doing the opposite.”
“Previously known for his performances as Alan Parker Urban Warrior and The League Against Tedium, he's now operating under his own name and offering a thoroughly enjoyable ragbag of sketches, stories, video clips, artwork and more.”
“She fetched her ragbag and spray bottle and began her rounds.”
“Foxes via the ragbag withmore cards to come posted by Andrew Simone in animals, language | * | 12 comments comments”
“Well, nominally anyway: in fact, comics Matt Crosby, Tom Parry and Ben Clark use the credit crunch as little more than a jumping-off point for their usual overstuffed ragbag of imaginative, larger-than-life sketch comedy.”
“Had he made his three-score-and-10, I wonder what the great, good fellow would have thought about his lovely uncomplicated game becoming, in the meantime, so angry and malevolent with itself; or how the most valorous of all England captains viewed the sulkily tedious machinations over the captaincy of Signor Capello's current ragbag squad.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ragbag’.
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Iaan
dirigisme, dystopia, cacotopia, ex ante, veritable, indefatigable, curmudgeon, desultory, antediluvian, transmogrify, pendent, elongate and 269 more...
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Intertanglement
A list of bejumble and minglement.
intertanglement, mixture, commingle, commixtion, immixture, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, intermixture, medley, minglement, mingle-mangle, blendure and 60 more...
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Into the mix
A medley of mixtures, mostly ones where the constituents are still distinct. I tagged kinds of stew.
mixture, commixture, admixture, intermixture, intermingling, commingling, mingling, marriage, union, integration, syncretion, permutation and 129 more...
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new words
faulty parallelism, antebellum, lucubrate, retronym, asyndeton, polysyndeton, chiasmus, laconic, dysphemism, zeugma, subpoena, dialectic and 130 more...
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Nick nacks
I started a list on the Wordie with a different log-in and now I can't find it. Sigh. So I'm starting again. These are monosyllabic double barrels that I like the sound of. Part of our human instin...
riff-raff, ping-pong, hip-hop, flim-flam, op cit, tip-top, mish-mash, flap-dash, nick-nack, lap-top, can-can, slap-dash and 60 more...
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