"raggy" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

Forms: raggier [comparative], raggiest [superlative]
Etymology: From Middle English raggy, from Old English raggiġ; equivalent to rag + -y. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|raggy}} Middle English raggy, {{inh|en|ang|raggiġ}} Old English raggiġ, {{suffix|en|rag|y}} rag + -y Head templates: {{en-adj|er}} raggy (comparative raggier, superlative raggiest)
  1. Raglike; like a rag.
    Sense id: en-raggy-en-adj-HOGCg8Xl
  2. Scruffy; tending to dress in rags.
    Sense id: en-raggy-en-adj-eGrLsZT2 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -y Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 1 44 4 3 48 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -y: 0 88 4 8
  3. Similar in style to ragtime music.
    Sense id: en-raggy-en-adj-TyiIsxon
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Adjective [English]

Etymology: rag + -y, rag being a dialectal (northern England) word for a fog or mist with drizzling rain, related to dialectal Danish rag (“sea vapour”). Compare roke, rawk, from a word for smoke (compare Swedish rök (“smoke”)), which may or may not be related. Etymology templates: {{af|en|rag|-y}} rag + -y, {{m|da||rag|sea vapour}} rag (“sea vapour”), {{m|en|roke}} roke, {{m|en|rawk}} rawk, {{cog|sv|rök||smoke}} Swedish rök (“smoke”) Head templates: {{en-adj|?}} raggy
  1. (dialectal, especially Yorkshire, Lancashire, possibly obsolete) Foggy, misty (and typically cold), with drizzling rain. Tags: Yorkshire, dialectal, especially, obsolete, possibly Categories (topical): Fog
    Sense id: en-raggy-en-adj-PKdYDem8 Disambiguation of Fog: 0 21 2 67 10 Categories (other): Lancashire English, Yorkshire English
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Noun [English]

Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} raggy (uncountable)
  1. Alternative form of ragi (“finger millet”) Tags: alt-of, alternative, uncountable Alternative form of: ragi (extra: finger millet)
    Sense id: en-raggy-en-noun-b1H8MyUr Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, Middle English entries with incorrect language header, Middle English terms suffixed with -y Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 1 44 4 3 48 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 1 38 5 3 52 Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 0 37 2 1 48 11 1 Disambiguation of Middle English terms suffixed with -y: 0 36 0 1 55 8 0
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 3

Adjective [Middle English]

IPA: /ˈraɡiː/
Etymology: From Old English raggiġ; equivalent to ragge + -y. Etymology templates: {{inh|enm|ang|raggiġ}} Old English raggiġ, {{suffix|enm|ragge|-y}} ragge + -y Head templates: {{head|enm|adjective||{{{1}}}||{{{2}}}||{{{3}}}|head=}} raggy, {{enm-adj}} raggy
  1. ragged; raggy
    Sense id: en-raggy-enm-adj-jByRtqwL
  2. shaggy
    Sense id: en-raggy-enm-adj-vHHeI0FC
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: raggi

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.