See Also: Ragged(medicine)
ragged(dictionary)
ragged(dictionary)
Ragged - Poker(gambling)
Ragged Island(tourism)
Ragged Flop - Poker(gambling)
Ragged Island hotels(tourism)

cha-cha (oh) and ragged (iou)


cha-cha (oh)



[Date: 1900-2000; Language: American Spanish; Origin: cha-cha-cha]
a Dance from South America with small, fast steps

ragged (iou)



ragged adjective. ME.

I.
Of an animal: having a rough shaggy coat. ME.
b. Of a bird: having broken or irregular feathers. rare. E16-E17.
Having a rough, irregular, or uneven surface, edge, or outline. ME.
C. McCullers A ragged line of trees. C. Mackenzie His grey moustache usually so trim was slightly ragged. M. Shadbolt The feeble moonlight showed the hills in ragged silhouette.
transf. Faulty, imperfect; lacking finish, smoothness, or uniformity; (of a sound) harsh, discordant. L15.
P. Fitzgerald When the carrier van arrived it drew..a ragged cheer from the bystanders. R. Carver He could hear her ragged breathing.
Heraldry. = RAGULY. Usu. postpositive. L15.
II.
Of cloth, a garment, etc.: torn, frayed, worn. ME.
G. Daly Ragged work clothes.
b. Of a place: dilapidated. E19.
Scott Fitzgerald The room had been redecorated.., but already it was ragged again.
Of a person: in ragged clothes. Also transf., exhausted, run-down; esp. in run ragged, exhaust. LME.
W. Golding The children were ragged and dirty.
Special collocations & phrases: on the ragged edge US slang on the extreme edge; fig. in a state of distress. ragged-hipped adjective (of a horse) having hips standing away from the backbone; ragged right Printing (with) an unjustified right-hand margin. ragged robin a plant of damp meadows, Lychnis flos-cuculi, of the pink family, with deeply four-cleft pink petals. ragged school Hist. a free school for poor children. ragged staff: with projecting knobs (chiefly in ref. to the crest of the Earls of Warwick). run ragged: see sense 6 above.
raggedly adverb M16.
raggedness noun M16.
raggedy adjective (colloq.) (a) = RAGGED 2, 3, 5, 6; (b) contemptible, very poor or inferior: L19.