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Rag   /ræg/   Listen
Rag

noun
1.
A small piece of cloth or paper.  Synonyms: shred, tag, tag end, tatter.
2.
A week at British universities during which side-shows and processions of floats are organized to raise money for charities.  Synonym: rag week.
3.
Music with a syncopated melody (usually for the piano).  Synonym: ragtime.
4.
Newspaper with half-size pages.  Synonyms: sheet, tabloid.
5.
A boisterous practical joke (especially by college students).
verb
(past & past part. ragged; pres. part. ragging)
1.
Treat cruelly.  Synonyms: bedevil, crucify, dun, frustrate, torment.
2.
Cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations.  Synonyms: annoy, bother, chafe, devil, get at, get to, gravel, irritate, nark, nettle, rile, vex.  "It irritates me that she never closes the door after she leaves"
3.
Play in ragtime.
4.
Harass with persistent criticism or carping.  Synonyms: bait, cod, rally, razz, ride, tantalise, tantalize, taunt, tease, twit.  "Don't ride me so hard over my failure" , "His fellow workers razzed him when he wore a jacket and tie"
5.
Censure severely or angrily.  Synonyms: bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambast, lambaste, lecture, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, reproof, scold, take to task, trounce.  "The deputy ragged the Prime Minister" , "The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup"
6.
Break into lumps before sorting.



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"Rag" Quotes from Famous Books



... crushing the bizarre satin rag of a programme that they had given her. "I have never heard Madame Mansoni," she added. I glanced at her; there was a blush on her cheek. She had heard of Madame Mansoni, although she had not ...
— The King's Mirror • Anthony Hope
... rag, a mock at first,—erelong When men have bled and women wept, To guard its precious folds from wrong, Even they who shrunk, even they who slept, Shall leap to bless it and to save. Strike! for ...
— The Poems of Emma Lazarus - Vol. II. (of II.), Jewish Poems: Translations • Emma Lazarus
... right to follow the Governor and precede the Chief Justice at official ceremonies, and peace amongst the devout was only restored by the Bishop's graceful relinquishment of a position to which his legal right was undeniable. Even now the title 'My Lord' as applied to Bishops acts as a red rag on many ex-Dissenting bulls, and they are as jealous of the slightest official preference of the Church of England as if their dearest religious liberties were ...
— Town Life in Australia - 1883 • R. E. N. (Richard) Twopeny
... eight o'clock when Mrs. Snow, having finished washing the dishes—she allowed no one to assist her in this operation since the time when she caught Captain Jerry absent-mindedly using the dust rag instead of the dishcloth—went upstairs to her patient. Shortly afterward Elsie came down, wearing ...
— Cap'n Eri • Joseph Crosby Lincoln
... clothes, and dirty corners,—work enough, I should say, to last some woman an hour or two. She might get out her pieces of calico, and, with the children's help, make a new spread, maybe a tidy apron, and she might braid a rag mat out of bits, and a hundred things that go toward comfort. No: all the work isn't done up yet, Miss Sylvie," and Jane Morgan stopped just then, to knit the seam-stitch in a ...
— Hope Mills - or Between Friend and Sweetheart • Amanda M. Douglas


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