raggyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

raggy (comparative raggier, superlative raggiest)

1. Raglike; like a rag.
2. Scruffy; tending to dress in rags.
3. Similar in style to ragtime music.

語源 2

rag +‎ -y, rag being a dialectal (northern England) word for a fog or mist with drizzling rain, related to dialectal Danish rag (“sea vapour”).^[1][2] Compare roke, rawk, from a word for smoke (compare Swedish rök (“smoke”)), which may or may not be related.

形容詞

raggy

1. (dialectal, especially Yorkshire, Lancashire, possibly obsolete) Foggy, misty (かつ typically cold), with drizzling rain.
   • 1874 (edition of 1879), Waugh, Chim. Corner, page 157:

     It looks a bit rough wi' lyin' out thoose raggy neets.

   • 1892, Ward, David Grieve, III, book IV, vi:

     It's been nobbut raggy weather up o' the moors this winter.

名詞

raggy (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of ragi (“finger millet”)

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