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- It is intended for a full-text search and it significantly expands the possibilities of working with lexical items from the Russian glossary of LingvoUniversal. Contains usage examples, synonyms, and antonyms.
riffraff
сущ. ; = riff-raff
подонки общества, отбросы, сброд, чернь
диал. барахло, мусор, хлам
прил.; разг. ; = riff-raff
никудышный, никчёмный, бесполезный
Examples from texts
She drove the long miles to the mill with only the disapproving Uncle Peter to protect her and the woods were full of free niggers and Yankee riffraff.Она отправлялась за много миль на свою лесопилку под защитой одного лишь дядюшки Питера, который, кстати, тоже осуждал ее, а в лесах полно было вольных негров я бандитов-янки.Mitchell, Margaret / Gone with the windМитчелл, Маргарет / Унесенные ветром. Том 2Унесенные ветром. Том 2Митчелл, Маргарет© Перевод. Т. Кудрявцева, 1982Gone with the windMitchell, Margaret© 1936 By Macmillan Publishing Company, a division of Macmillan. Inc© renewed 1964 by Stephens Mitchell and Trust Compnay of Ceorgia as Executors of Margaret Mitchell Marsh.© renewed by Stephens Mitchell
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Word forms
riffraff
noun
| Singular | Plural | |
| Common case | riffraff | *riffraffs |
| Possessive case | riffraff's | *riffraffs' |