Crossword clues for ragged
ragged
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rag \Rag\ (r[a^]g), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Ragged (r[a^]gd); p. pr. & vb. n. Ragging (r[a^]g"g[i^]ng).] To become tattered. [Obs.]
Ragged \Rag"ged\ (r[a^]g"g[e^]d), a. [From Rag, n.]
Rent or worn into tatters, or till the texture is broken; as, a ragged coat; a ragged sail.
Broken with rough edges; having jags; uneven; rough; jagged; as, ragged rocks.
Hence, harsh and disagreeable to the ear; dissonant. [R.] ``A ragged noise of mirth.''
--Herbert.Wearing tattered clothes; as, a ragged fellow.
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Rough; shaggy; rugged.
What shepherd owns those ragged sheep?
--Dryden.Ragged lady (Bot.), the fennel flower ( Nigella Damascena).
Ragged robin (Bot.), a plant of the genus Lychnis ( Lychnis Flos-cuculi), cultivated for its handsome flowers, which have the petals cut into narrow lobes.
Ragged sailor (Bot.), prince's feather ( Polygonum orientale).
Ragged school, a free school for poor children, where they are taught and in part fed; -- a name given at first because they came in their common clothing. [Eng.] [1913 Webster] -- Rag"ged*ly, adv. -- Rag"ged*ness, n.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"rough, shaggy," c.1300, past participle adjective as though from a verb form of rag (n.). Compare Latin pannosus "ragged, wrinkly," from pannus "piece of cloth." But the word might reflect a broader, older meaning; perhaps from or reinforced by Old Norse raggaðr "shaggy," via Old English raggig "shaggy, bristly, rough" (which, Barnhart writes, "was almost surely developed from Scandinavian"). Of clothes, early 14c.; of persons, late 14c. To run (someone) ragged is from 1915. Related: Raggedly; raggedness.
Wiktionary
1 Rent or worn into tatters, or till the texture is broken. 2 Broken with rough edges; having jags; uneven; rough; jagged. 3 Hence, harsh and disagreeable to the ear; dissonant. 4 Wearing tattered clothes. 5 Rough; shaggy; rugged. 6 (rfdef: English) v
(en-pastrag)
WordNet
adj. being or dressed in clothes that are worn or torn; "clothes as ragged as a scarecrow's"; "a ragged tramp"
worn out from stress or strain; "run ragged"
having an irregular outline; "text set with ragged right margins"; "herded the class into a ragged line"
n. a small piece of cloth or paper [syn: shred, tag, tag end, tatter]
a week at British universities during which side-shows and processions of floats are organized to raise money for charities [syn: rag week]
music with a syncopated melody (usually for the piano) [syn: ragtime]
a boisterous practical joke (especially by college students)
See rag
v. treat cruelly; "The children tormented the stuttering teacher" [syn: torment, bedevil, crucify, dun, frustrate]
cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations; "Mosquitoes buzzing in my ear really bothers me"; "It irritates me that she never closes the door after she leaves" [syn: annoy, get to, bother, get at, irritate, rile, nark, nettle, gravel, vex, chafe, devil]
play in ragtime; "rag that old tune"
harass with persistent criticism or carping; "The children teased the new teacher"; "Don't ride me so hard over my failure"; "His fellow workers razzed him when he wore a jacket and tie" [syn: tease, razz, cod, tantalize, tantalise, bait, taunt, twit, rally, ride]
censure severely or angrily; "The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car"; "The deputy ragged the Prime Minister"; "The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup" [syn: call on the carpet, rebuke, trounce, reproof, lecture, reprimand, jaw, dress down, call down, scold, chide, berate, bawl out, remonstrate, chew out, chew up, have words, lambaste, lambast]
break into lumps before sorting; "rag ore"
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "ragged".
She proceeded to explain about the ragged bundle Acorn had carried, and described the rock that fell out of it after his death.
Many of the people afoot had worn and ragged coats, breeches out at the knee, dresses with tattered hems, and threadbare cloaks or none at all.
The landscaping was from another age: a couple of four-story cocoapalms, indifferently pruned bird of paradise grown ragged, agapanthus, andcalla lilies surrounding a flat, brown lawn.
By right, as an old friend who had found the airman in the forest, Seryonka was walking solemnly in front of the stretcher, laboriously pulling his feet, encased in the huge felt boots left him by his father, out of the snow and sternly scolding the other white-toothed, grimy-faced, fantastically ragged boys.
I would be every bit as effective in my ragged old coat, or stark naked for that matter, but he does insist-was Thero came in just then and Nysander gave Alec a wink that put him very much in mind of Micum Cavish.
His amanuensis found it impossible to keep up with him, and therefore profited by a hint from one of us, and instead of writing, merely moved his pen rapidly over the paper, scrawling all sorts of ragged lines and figures to resemble writing!
She was at it all week for more than eight hours a day, until her back and neck ached, and ragged curls of unfurling ampersands swam across her vision.
Rhapsody cleared her throat, ragged from the salt, and quietly sang one of the ancient aubades, the love songs to the sky that Liringlas had been marking time with for as long as she knew.
The tide was high, and the ragged rocks of the Banc des Violets in the south and the Corbiore in the west were all but hidden.
In the center, a skinny, gray-bearded man dressed only in ragged knee breeches was juggling four belaying pins.
And to the intent you may beleeve me I will shew you an example : wee were come nothing nigh to Thebes, where is the fountain of our art and science, but we learned where a rich Chuffe called Chriseros did dwell, who for fear of offices in the publique wel dissembled his estate, and lived sole and solitary in a small coat, howbeit replenished with aboundance of treasure, and went daily in ragged and torn apparel.
As Biter swung hard round on to the wind, Will heard a ragged fusillade.
Between the fireplace and the dying man squatted a thick-set black man, clad only in ragged, muddy trousers.
He thought Bling with his funny crewcut and ragged T-shirt had said New Wave.
Lolling sideways in his saddle, for several minutes he scanned the yellow-brown ramparts of the Amarillos rising rugged and ragged against the blue sky twenty miles to eastward.