Rag in Scrabble Dictionary

Valid words made from Rag

You can make 4 words from 'rag' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

• 3 letters words from 'rag'
• 2 letters words from 'rag'

3 letters words from 'rag'

GAR 4

RAG 4

2 letters words from 'rag'

AG 3

AR 2

Definitions and meaning of rag

rag

Pronunciation

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɹæɡ/
• Rhymes: -æɡ

Etymology 1

From Middle English ragge, from Old English ragg (suggested by derivative raggiġ (“shaggy; bristly; ragged”)), from Old Norse rǫgg (“tuft; shagginess”). Cognate with Swedish ragg. Related to rug.

Noun

rag (plural rags)

1. (in the plural) Tattered clothes.
2. A piece of old cloth; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred, a tatter.
3. A shabby, beggarly fellow; a ragamuffin.
4. A ragged edge in metalworking.
5. (nautical, slang) A sail, or any piece of canvas.
6. (slang, derogatory) A newspaper or magazine, especially one whose journalism is considered to be of poor quality.

   Synonym: fish wrap
7. (poker) A poor, low-ranking kicker.

   I have ace-four on my hand. In other words, I have ace-rag.

8. (slang, theater) A curtain of various kinds.
9. (dated) A person suffering from exhaustion or lack of energy.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

rag (third-person singular simple present rags, present participle ragging, simple past and past participle ragged)

1. (transitive) To decorate (a wall, etc.) by applying paint with a rag.
2. (intransitive) To become tattered.

Etymology 2

Unknown origin; perhaps the same word as Etymology 1, above.

Noun

rag (plural rags)

1. A coarse kind of rock, somewhat cellular in texture; ragstone.
   • 2003, Peter Ackroyd, The Clerkenwell Tales, page 1:

     the three walls around the garden, each one of thirty-three feet, were built out of three layers of stone — pebble stone, flint and rag stone.

Derived terms

• coral rag
• Kentish rag
• ragwork

Verb

rag (third-person singular simple present rags, present participle ragging, simple past and past participle ragged)

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

Etymology 3

Origin uncertain.

Verb

rag (third-person singular simple present rags, present participle ragging, simple past and past participle ragged)

1. To scold or tell off; to torment; to banter.
2. (Britain 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.

Derived terms

• bullirag
• rag the puck
• rag on

Translations

Noun

rag (plural rags)

1. (dated) A prank or practical joke.
2. (Britain, Ireland) A society run by university students for the purpose of charitable fundraising.

Derived terms

• rag day
• rag week

Etymology 4

Perhaps from ragged. Compare later ragtime.

Noun

rag (plural rags)

1. (obsolete, US) An informal dance party featuring music played by African-American string bands. [19th c.]
2. A ragtime song, dance or piece of music. [from 19th c.]

Translations

Verb

rag (third-person singular simple present rags, present participle ragging, simple past and past participle ragged)

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

References

Anagrams

• ARG, Arg., GAR, Gra, RGA, arg, gar

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Breton

Preposition

rag

1. before

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Dutch

Etymology 1

Unknown, only found to related to West Frisian reach, though possibly more distantly to Old Saxon raginna (“rough hair”), Old English ragu (“moss”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rɑx/

Noun

rag n (plural raggen, diminutive ragje n)

1. spider silk

Synonyms

• spinrag

Derived terms

• ragfijn

Etymology 2

From English rag.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɛɡ/

Noun

rag n (plural rags, diminutive ragje n)

1. A piece of ragtime music.

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German

Verb

rag

1. singular imperative of ragen
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of ragen

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Hungarian

Etymology

Back-formation from ragad. Created during the Hungarian language reform which took place in the 18th–19th centuries.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ ˈrɒɡ]
• Hyphenation: rag
• Rhymes: -ɒɡ

Noun

rag (plural ragok)

1. (grammar) inflectional suffix/affix, termination, ending (for nominals, mostly case endings; for verbs and postpositions, personal suffixes; almost exclusively at the very end of a word in Hungarian)

   Hypernym: toldalék

   Coordinate terms: képző, jel

Declension

Derived terms

See also

• Appendix:Hungarian suffixes

Further reading

• (suffix): rag in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962.
• ([regional] a kind of beam or a part of the roof): rag in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962.

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North Frisian

Noun

rag m (plural rager)

1. (Föhr-Amrum) (anatomy) back

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Scottish Gaelic

Adjective

rag

1. stiff, rigid, inflexible
2. stubborn, obstinate

Derived terms

• rag-mhuinealach

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Somali

Noun

rag ?

1. man

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Zhuang

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /ɣaːk˧/
• Tone numbers: rag⁸
• Hyphenation: rag

Etymology 1

From Proto-Tai *C̬.raːkᴰ (“root”). Cognate with Thai ราก (râak), Northern Thai ᩁᩣ᩠ᨠ, Khün ᩁᩣ᩠ᨠ, Lao ຮາກ (hāk), Lü ᦣᦱᧅ (haak), Tai Dam ꪭꪱꪀ, Shan ႁၢၵ်ႈ (hāak), Ahom 𑜍𑜀𑜫 (rak), Nong Zhuang laeg, Zuojiang Zhuang lag, Saek ร̄าก.

Noun

rag (old orthography rag)

1. root.

Etymology 2

From Proto-Tai *C̬.laːkᴰ (“to pull; to drag”). Cognate with Thai ลาก (lâak), Lao ລາກ (lāk), Shan လၢၵ်ႈ (lāak), Ahom 𑜎𑜀𑜫 (lak), Nong Zhuang laeg, Zuojiang Zhuang lag.

Verb

rag (old orthography rag)

1. to drag; to pull; to haul.

Source: wiktionary.org

• to tease or ridicule.
  (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)

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