raff /ɹæf/noun 5verb 1forms 3 noun5 •The common rabble or mob; riffraff.Jostling with unemployed labourers of the lowest class, ballast-heavers, coal-whippers, brazen women, ragged children, and the raff and refuse of the river, he makes his way with difficulty along […] — 1839 •(old-fashioned) A common, crass or low-standing person. Alternatively, a snob.English raffs of every description — 1860 •(old-fashioned) A disorderly heap; a jumble; a large quantityA raff of errors. — 1680 •(old-fashioned) lumber or refuse.[a hut] was fashioned of the raff of the slough—dead fronds, rotting branches, withered marsh grasses. Its sad gray-green were in the living wilderness like a monument to death. — 1923 •A three-cornered sail set on a schooner when before the wind. verb1 •(old-fashioned) To sweep, blow, snatch, draw, or huddle together; to sweep up.Causes and effects which I thus raffe up together. — 1609 formsraffed · raffing · raffs
