ragbag
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7.1
- noun
- /ˈræɡˌbæɡ/
:
mezcla de cosas
- 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
14
7.3
A messy mixture of different things thrown together
9
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
6.4
A confused mix of different things
4
4.1
A collection of different small items chosen at random
1
8.2
A mixture of different things, often very varied and unexpected
1
9.9
A confused mix of different things that do not fit together
1
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
7.1
A messy mix of things that do not belong together
A mixed collection of different things
A mixed collection of different things, like photos and receipts
A messy mixture of different things that do not fit together
A confused mix of different things like old toys and books
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.