rag

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. Tattered clothes (clothing).
2. A piece of old cloth, especially one used for cleaning, patching, etc.; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred or tatter.
3. A shabby, beggarly person; synonym of ragamuffin.
4. A ragged edge in metalworking.
5. (slang) A sail, or any piece of canvas.
6. (slang) Sanitary napkins, pads, or other materials used to absorb menstrual discharge.
7. (slang) A newspaper or magazine, especially one whose journalism is considered to be of poor quality.
8. A poor, low-ranking kicker.
9. (slang) A curtain of various kinds.
10. A person suffering from exhaustion or lack of energy.
11. (obsolete,slang) A banknote.

Verb

1. To decorate (a wall, etc.) by applying paint with a rag.
2. To become tattered.
3. (slang) To menstruate.

Verb

1. To break (ore) into lumps for sorting.
2. To cut or dress roughly, as a grindstone.

Verb

1. To scold or tell off; to torment; to banter.
2. (slang) To drive a car or another vehicle in a hard, fast or unsympathetic manner.
3. To tease or torment, especially at a university; to bully, to haze.

Verb

1. (informal) To play or compose (a piece, melody, etc.) in syncopated time.
2. (informal) To dance to ragtime music.
3. (obsolete) To add syncopation (to a tune) and thereby make it appropriate for a ragtime song.

Concepts

chiffon

haillon

lambeau

guenille

loque

torchon

usé

canard

🦆

mouchoir

en haillons

morceau

agacer

linge

ragtime

gêner

gronder

enquiquiner

importuner

indigner

ennuyer

gugusse

embêter

🐛

morue

drap

querelle

reprendre

réprimander

reprocher

tabloïd

tabloïde

déranger

contrarier

chahut

chiffons

engueuler

chahuter

cabillaud

brimer

morceau de tissu

narguer

rag

farce

feuille

Synonymes

shred

tatter

cloth

scrap

patch

handkerchief

rags

tease

piece of cloth

scold

torment

gravel

irritate

chafe

rile

duster

get at

nark

tatters

get to

annoy

razz

call down

nettle

chew up

chide

tag end

tattered cloth

rag week

reproof

bother

vex

clout

devil

sheet

tabloid

reprimand

tissue

flash

cod

plague

frustrate

bait

bawl out

ragtime

rally

rebuke

crucify

burr

remonstrate

rib

ride

row

storm

dress down

jaw

bedevil

tag

dun

tantalise

tantalize

lambast

taunt

lambaste

towel

trounce

berate

twit

lecture

wear out

worn out

worn-out

be in tatters

call on the carpet

have words

mock

make a row

chew out

take to task

paper

duster cloth

ragging mark

swabbing cloth

cotton waste for cleaning

skin needling

part

flash burr

admonish

aggravate

banisters

banter

bluster

brush down

bug

🐛

chaff

chastise

chat

clothes

confabulate

counterfoil

dance

💃

defect

dish cloth

duck

🦆

dust cloth

exacerbate

exasperate

expostulate

fabric

fault

fin

flap

floor-cloth

fret

gall

garment

get

goad

irk

jag

jar

🫙

josh

kid

🧒

laundry

material

miff

mop

note

objurgate

old

🧓

outburst

paper money

peeve

piece

provoke

quarrel

ragstone

remainder

remnant

scandal

snipe

snipping

speak

🗣️

spiel

spite

spoke

sponge

🧽

swab

swatch

swob

talk

🗣️

tattered

the paper

tuft

upbraid

confab

floorcloth

in rags

oddment

tattered clothes

rag day

sentus

waste

cleaning cloth

upset metal

scouring cloth

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ɹæɡ/

Étymologie (Anglais)

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From Middle English ragge, from Old English ragg (suggested by derivative raggiġ (“shaggy; bristly; ragged”)), from Old Norse rǫgg (“tuft; shagginess”), from Proto-Germanic *rawwa-, probably related to *rūhaz. Cognate with Swedish ragg. Related to rug.