| posp. |
rabble; vermin; ragtag and bobtail; rag-tag; varletry; rout; a collection of undesirables; riff-raff (Bullfinch); human what-not; raff; rag, tag and bobtail (Valentino's capital was crowded with... the members of his court, agents of other Italian states, merchants with necessities or luxuries to sell, solicitors of favours, sycophants, spies, actors, poets, loose women and all the rag, tag and bobtail that followed a victorious condottiere in the hope of making money by fair means or foul. Taras); ragtag group (Taras); rag-tag and bobtail; tag; populace |
