ragtag

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

From earlier tag-rag and tag and rag, from rag + tag.

And so, along with the rest of the coastwise ragtag, which was seeking harbor and holding-ground, came the ancient schooner Polly. — Blow The Man Down: A Romance Of The Coast, Holman Day
You keep on worrying her like this until you get her into the graveyard too, then you can fill the whole house full of ragtag and bobtail. — The sound and the fury, William Faulkner
Trading for forty-rod whisky, to enable you to get drunk and happy and tomahawk your families, has played the everlasting mischief with the picturesque pomp of your dress, and here you are, in the broad light of the nineteenth century, gotten up like the ragtag and bobtail of the purlieus of New York. — Sketches New and Old, Mark Twain

rabble, riffraff, ragtag and bobtail

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