riffraff
Plural: riffraffs
Noun
- Disreputable or undesirable people; the lowest class of society.
- disparaging terms for the common people
- The rabble; crowds; people of a low, disreputable or undesirable class or position.
- Sweepings; refuse.
Examples
- He felt his word choices were descending into RIFFRAFF when he could only play two-letter words.
- They started charging a modest fee in an effort to keep the riffraff out.
Origin / Etymology
From Old French rif et raf (“one and all”), of Germanic origin. The first word is from rifler (“to scrape off”) and the last is from raffler, related to rafler (“to plunder”).
Synonyms
rabble, ragtag, ragtag and bobtail, canaille, commonality, commonalty, crowd, demos, everyone, general public, great unhosed, great unwashed, herd, hoi polloi, lower class, many, masses, mob, multitude, odds and sods, peasantry, plebs, populace, proletariat, rank and file, riffraff, third estate, trash, unwashed, unwashed masses, working class
Scrabble Score: 20
riffraff: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordriffraff: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
riffraff: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary