"riff-raffy" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1850, Sylvester Judd, Richard Edney and the Governor's Family, A Rusurban Tale, page 145:",
          "text": "\"Not Tunny and I,\" retorted the lady; \"they are noisy, riffraffy, and smell of cowheel and codfish, - uncomfortable to polite minds, disrelishable to respectable society, and dangerous to genteel young ladies.",
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          "text": "Brunswick, always thinking ahead, kept improving the tone of bowling alleys, extending credit to potential bowling-alley proprietors, hiring architects and decorators to make sure the places wouldn't look riff-raffy.",
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          "ref": "1987, Bernard Sabath, You Caught Me Dancing, page 18:",
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