tag-rag and bobtail

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Noun

tag-rag and bobtail pl (plural only)

  1. Alternative form of rag, tag and bobtail
    • 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:
      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?

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