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ragtag (and bobtail)
vs
riffraff
ragtag (and bobtail)
riffraff
noun
Sweepings; refuse.
The rabble; crowds; the common people.
How often have the words
ragtag (and bobtail)
and
riffraff
occurred in a corpus of books?
(source:
Google Ngram Viewer
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