ragbag
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7.1
- noun
- /ˈræɡˌbæɡ/
- He gathered a ragbag of mismatched tools from the shed for his home repairs.
Examples
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Pakenham's view of Ghana as a "ragbag of territories" is unkind.
Academic text (2001) -
In excerpted moments extracted from the ragbag spectrum of my life.
Fiction book (1991) -
A figure in black will leap right out of the ragbag of your average aimless crowd.
Fiction book (1990) -
I told him my dreams were a ragbag of vague snippets of images.
Fiction book (1990) -
Choose me a bride from amongst the ragbag of royal virgins I have twice rejected.
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You have real burdens now, instead of ragbags.
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Dressed like a rather fetching ragbag, yet always looking effective in some indefinable way.
Fiction book (1995) -
Sally lived the way she dressed, a consistent ragbag in a jackdaw's nest.
Fiction book (1995) -
Joseph Ernst and Roy Merrens chided the apparent belief of many geographers that Jefferson's Notes contains "little more than a ragbag of geographical facts."
Academic text (2008) -
The artist used a ragbag of old clothes and scraps for her unique style.
Synonyms
17
3.7
A group of things, people, or results with both good and bad parts
11
7.3
A messy mixture of different things thrown together
11
2.8
Small leftover things that you keep, like old keys or bits of paper
8
4.6
A group of old items to give away or sell at a charity sale
7
4.1
A collection of different small items chosen at random
5
6.4
A confused mix of different things
3
8.2
A mixture of different things, often very varied and unexpected
2
7.7
A place where you keep different small items together
1
7.9
A group of different small things like papers or photos
1
9.9
A confused mix of different things that do not fit together
1
8.7
A messy mixture of different things that do not fit together
1
9.9
A mixed collection of different things
1
7.1
A messy mix of things that do not belong together
1
9.9
A confused mix of different things like old toys and books
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9.9
A mixed collection of different things, like photos and receipts
Small leftover pieces from things like buttons or fabric
How Mixed
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Ragbag comes from the picture of a bag full of different cloth scraps, with rag ('a scrap of cloth') and bag ('a container'). A bag of many different bits became a way to talk about any 'mixed collection', so ragbag now means a jumble of unrelated things.