tag-rag and bobtail

A form of rag — Tattered clothes (clothing).

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Meanings

nountag-rag and bobtail pl (plural only)
  1. alternativepluralplural onlyAlternative form of rag, tag and bobtail.

    Fancy marrying a woman of low rank of life, and having your house filled with her confounded tag-rag-and-bobtail of relations! Fancy your wife attached to a mother who dropped her h’s, or called Maria Marire! How are you to introduce her into society?

    1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 7, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC
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