rabble
Plural: rabbles
Noun
- a disorderly crowd of people
- disparaging terms for the common people
- A bewildered or meaningless string of words.
- A pack of animals; or any confused collection of things.
- A mob; a disorderly crowd.
- The mass of common people; the lowest class of populace.
- An iron bar used in puddling.
Verb
Verb Forms: rabbled, rabbling, rabbles
- To mob or harass a crowd of people.
- To speak in a confused manner; talk incoherently; utter nonsense
- To speak confusedly or incoherently; gabble or chatter out
- To stir with a rabble.
Examples
- He tried to RABBLE his opponent into making a hasty, low-scoring play.
Origin / Etymology
First attested since 1300s, from Middle English rablen (“to ramble; rave; speak in a confused manner”), cognate with Middle Dutch rabbelen (“to talk; chatter; trifle”), Low German rabbeln, robbeln (“to chatter; prattle”).
Synonyms
mob, ragtag, ragtag and bobtail, riffraff, rout, canaille, commonality, commonalty, crowd, demos, everyone, general public, great unhosed, great unwashed, herd, hoi polloi, lower class, many, masses, multitude, odds and sods, peasantry, plebs, populace, proletariat, rabble, rank and file, third estate, trash, unwashed, unwashed masses, working class
Scrabble Score: 10
rabble: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordrabble: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
rabble: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary