Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - raffish
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Raffish
raffish
adjective Date: 1796 1. marked by or suggestive of flashy vulgarity or crudeness 2. marked by a careless unconventionality ; rakish • ~ly adverb • ~ness noun
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1.
adj. 1 disreputable; rakish. 2 tawdry. Derivatives raffishly adv. raffishness n. Etymology: as RAFT(2) + -ISH(1) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
2.
1. беспутный a raffish young man —- молодой беспутник 2. вульгарный; дешевый (об эффекте и т. п.) ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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4.
Raffish people and places are not very respectable but are attractive and stylish in spite of this. (WRITTEN) He was handsome in a raffish kind of way... ADJ: usu ADJ n ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
5.
~ adj literary behaving or dressing in a confident and cheerful way that shows no concern for what other people think but is still attractive (a raffish air about him which some women found appealing) - raffishly adv - raffishness n ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
6.
- 1801, 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 Sw. rafs "rubbish" (see riffraff). ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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