tag-rag and bobtail

English

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?

Anagrams

• rag, tag and bobtail, ragtag and bobtail