April 8, 2007

RIFF-RAFF

-noun

1. people, or a group of people, regarded as disreputable or worthless: A pack of riffraff.
2. the lowest classes; rabble: The riffraff of the city.
3. trash; rubbish

-adjective

4. worthless, disreputable, or trashy

[origin: 1425-75; late ME rif amd raf every particle, things of small value <OF rif et raf, formed on rifler to spoil ( see rifle), raffler to ravage. snatch away]

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