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raff

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4 lettersPronunciation /ɹæf/Sorted affrStarts with REnds with F0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. Worthless material, refuse, or a disorderly crowd.

Word origin

From Middle English raf, from Old French raffer, of Germanic origin; compare German raffen, akin to rap (“to snatch”). Compare riffraff, rip (“to tear”).

Used in a sentence

  • A raff of errors.
  • Jostling with unemployed labourers of the lowest class, ballast-heavers, coal-whippers, brazen women, ragged children, and the raff and refuse of the river, he makes his way with difficulty along […]
  • Causes and effects which I thus raffe up together.

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