2. Adjective. (context: of a person) Wearing such clothes. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Raggedy
1. somewhat ragged [adj -GEDIER, -GEDIEST]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Raggedy
Literary usage of Raggedy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Children's Literature: A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher by Charles Madison Curry (1921)
"raggedy Man! W'y, The raggedy Man—he's ist so good He splits the kindlin' ...
raggedy! raggedy! raggedy Man! The raggedy Man—one time when he Wuz makin' a ..."
2. Children's Literature: A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher by Charles Madison Curry (1921)
"raggedy Man! W'y, The raggedy Man—he's ist so good He splits the kindlin' ...
raggedy! raggedy! raggedy Man! The raggedy Man—one time when he Wuz makin' a ..."
3. The Wit and Humor of America by Marshall Pinckney Wilder (1911)
"raggedy Man! W'y, The raggedy Man—he's ist so good He splits the kindlin' an'
... An' The raggedy Man, he knows most rhymes An' tells 'em, ef I be good, ..."
4. Riley Child-rhymes by James Whitcomb Riley (1898)
"THE raggedy MAN He dumbed clean up in our big tree An' shooked a' apple down fer
... raggedy! raggedy ! raggedy Man! The raggedy Man—one time when he Wuz ..."
5. The Art of Expression by Grace Anna Burt (1905)
"raggedy Man! W'y the raggedy Man — he's ist so good, He splits the kindlin' an'
... raggedy Man! The raggedy Man — one time, when he Was makin' a little ..."
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