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tagraggery

tagraggery noun: a miscellaneous collection of shabby or ragtag things.

Noun

tagraggery (plural tagraggeries)

  1. (literary, rare) A miscellaneous collection of shabby or ragtag things.
    • Her, and her miscellaneous tagraggery of Confederates, one and all.1865, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great, volume V, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, book XVIII, page 293

Forms of tagraggery

pluraltagraggeries

Origin of tagraggery

From tag-rag + -ery.

Questions about tagraggery

What does tagraggery mean?
Tagraggery means a miscellaneous collection of shabby or ragtag things.
What part of speech is tagraggery?
Tagraggery is a noun.
What is the plural of tagraggery?
The plural of tagraggery is tagraggeries.

Words near tagraggery in the dictionary

  1. tagout
  2. Tagpopongan
  3. Tagporo
  4. tagrag
  5. tagraggeries
  6. tagraggery
  7. tags
  8. tags along
  9. tags off
  10. tags on
  11. tags out

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