Meaning of raggle-taggle | Babel Free

Definitions

Disorderly, in a messy or chaotic state; ragged.

Examples

“The cocky little foot soldiers who had mopped up the north Burma jungle saw⟳ a knot of blue-grey, raggle-taggle men at the junction and wanted to fire on them.”

“Gradually, these raggle-taggle remnants of the original counter-culture built up a neo-medieval economy based around crafts, alternative medicine and entertainment: jugglers, acrobats, healers, food vendors, candle makers, clothes sellers, tattooists, piercers, jewellers, and drug pedlars.”

“The raggle-taggle host⟳ of freedmen dwarfed her own⟳, but they were more burden than benefit.”

“The prime minister must know⟳ that the only way to achieve⟳ his stated goal is to topple Gaddafi, and his intelligence will have⟳ informed him that the raggle-taggle army in Benghazi cannot do it for him.”

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