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Raffish
is always a great word to know.
So is gobo. Does it mean:
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
Example Sentences
- All of which sits a tad oddly with the raffish behaviour of the writers-especially those of a generation ago.
- Still there are those who mistake dark clouds for raffish hucksterism.
- The overwhelming majority of this tangy, raffish slang has vanished or has been supplanted by newer slang.
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raffish
"disreputable, vulgar," 1801 (first attested in Jane Austen), from raff "people," usually of a lower sort (1673), probably from rif and raf (1338) "everyone," via Fr. or M.Du., ultimately also probably related to Swed. rafs "rubbish" (see riffraff).
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