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See also: Ragga and raggá

English

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Etymology

Clipping of raggamuffin, variant of ragamuffin (troublemaker), influenced by reggae.

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Noun

ragga (uncountable)

  1. (music) A subgenre of reggae and dancehall influenced by hip hop and digital production techniques such as sampling.
    • 1993 August, David Eimer, “Reel to Reel”, in The Wire, number 114, →ISSN, page 52:
      Tosh's brand of roots reggae, with its emphasis on uplifting anthems and melodic riffs, now sounds as dated as The Wailers' earliest incarnation as a straight-up ska band, especially when listened to alongside the shuddering bass of most contemporary ragga tracks.
    • 2001 September 15, Christopher John Farley, “Music Goes Global”, in Time, →ISSN:
      The song samples Ricky Martin's hit Shake Your Bom-Bom but adds ragga's roughness. When Bam Bam comes on, the crowd goes wild.
    • 2016, Linda Dailey Paulson, “Ragga”, in edited by Dave DiMartino, Music in the 20th Century, volume 1, Routledge, →ISBN, page 514:
      A sub-genre of reggae, ragga is a modern Jamaican sound with ties to the oldest traditional music of that island-nation. The name is taken from the word “raggamuffin”, a term used for disenfranchised youth. One popular ragga singer called Half Pint said, “A lot of people interpret raggamuffin as if it [is] a criminal morality.”
    • 2019, Wiley et al (lyrics and music), “Boasty”:
      Fling a ragga riddim like it's '03

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Italian

Pronunciation

Noun

ragga m (uncountable)

  1. Clipping of raggamuffin (ragga).

Further reading

  • ragga in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication

Swedish

Etymology

Definitions 1-3 originate from ragg (fur, bristles). Definitions 4-5 are associated with the raggare subculture, possibly from trucker slang (åkarslang) ragga (upp) ("to pick something or someone up").[1]

Verb

ragga (present raggar, preterite raggade, supine raggat, imperative ragga)

  1. (dialect, Småland: gå å ragga) to go around untidy, uncombed, hair hanging down[2]
  2. (reflexive, dialect, Hälsingland: ragga sej) to regret[3]
  3. (ragga till) to bristle[4]
  4. to search, look for, hit on, pick up (women, in cars)[5]
    Han raggade på henne
    He was hitting on her
    De åkte runt och raggade
    They were driving around trying to pick up women
    att ragga upp någon
    to pick someone up
    Synonym: (hit on) stöta på
  5. (figuratively) to search, look for, recruit (sponsors, supporters, new members)
    Vi försöker ragga sponsorer
    We're trying to pick up sponsors
    • 2009, Sydöstran (newspaper), December 2
      BTH raggar studenter i Lettland och Litauen
      Blekinge Institute of Technology recruits students in Latvia and Lithuania

Usage notes

Chiefly used purely to mean hit on in (sense 4), independent of raggare culture.

Conjugation

References

  1. ^ Raggare in Våra ord: deras uttal och ursprung (1979 edition)
  2. ^ RAGG: RAGGA 2 in Johan Ernst Rietz, Svenskt dialektlexikon (1862–1867)
  3. ^ RAGGA SEJ in Johan Ernst Rietz, Svenskt dialektlexikon (1862–1867)
  4. ^ "Ragg: avledning Ragga" in ragga in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB) (letter R edited in 1956)
  5. ^ ragga in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)