riffraff
Meanings
Plural: riffraffs
Noun
- disparaging terms for the common people
- The rabble; crowds; people of a low, disreputable or undesirable class or position.
- Sweepings; refuse.
Origin / Etymology
From Old French rif et raf (“one and all”), of Germanic origin. The first word is from rifler (“to scrape off”) and the last is from raffler, related to rafler (“to plunder”).
Synonyms
canaille, commonality, commonalty, crowd, demos, everyone, general public, great unhosed, great unwashed, herd, hoi polloi, lower class, many, masses, mob, multitude, odds and sods, peasantry, plebs, populace, proletariat, rabble, ragtag, ragtag and bobtail, rank and file, riffraff, third estate, trash, unwashed, unwashed masses, working class
Scrabble Score: 20
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