ragbag
English
Etymology
rag + bag
Noun
ragbag (plural ragbags)
- A collection containing a variety of miscellaneous things.
- 2020 August 4, Richard Conniff, “They may look goofy, but ostriches are nobody’s fool”, in National Geographic:
- In our ragbag of stereotypes, ostriches have thus become the quintessential dim-witted animals. Even the Bible says they’re dumb, and bad parents too.
- 2020 November 18, Paul Bigland, “New infrastructure and new rolling stock”, in Rail, page 49:
- Opposite, the Loram site contains a real ragbag of yellow, blue or rust-streaked kit whose appearance belies their importance in keeping the railways running.
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Synonyms
- farrago, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, melange, mingle-mangle, mishmash, oddments, odds and ends, omnium-gatherum
- See also Thesaurus:hodgepodge
Translations
collection of miscellaneous things — see hodgepodge
References
- “ragbag”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.