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Raff vs Draff - What's the difference?

raff | draff |

As nouns the difference between raff and draff

is that raff is a promiscuous heap; a jumble; a large quantity; lumber; refuse while draff is dregs; the wash given to swin or cows; hogwash or waste matter.

As a verb raff

is to sweep, snatch, draw, or huddle together; to take by a promiscuous sweep.

raff

English

Noun

  • A promiscuous heap; a jumble; a large quantity; lumber; refuse.
  • * Barrow
    • A raff of errors.
  • The common rabble or mob; riffraff.
  • A low fellow; a churl.

    • Derived terms

    * raff merchant

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To sweep, snatch, draw, or huddle together; to take by a promiscuous sweep.
  • * Carew
    • Causes and effects which I thus raff up together.
    (Webster 1913)

    draff

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • dregs; the wash given to swin or cows; hogwash or waste matter
  • *A crowd immersed in ordure, that appear'd draff of the human body. Dante's Divine comedy, Hell, Canto 18

    • References

    *Webster's New International Dictionary, Second Edition