Rag vs Frag - What's the difference?
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(in the plural) Tattered clothes.
* (and other bibliographic particulars) (Dryden)
A piece of old cloth; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred, a tatter.
* (and other bibliographic particulars) (Milton)
* (and other bibliographic particulars) (Fuller)
A shabby, beggarly fellow; a ragamuffin.
* (and other bibliographic particulars) (Ben Jonson)
* (and other bibliographic particulars) (Spenser)
A ragged edge in metalworking.
(nautical, slang) A sail, or any piece of canvas.
* (and other bibliographic particulars) (Lowell)
(slang, pejorative) A newspaper, magazine.
(rfc-sense) (poker slang) A card that appears to help no one.
(rfc-sense) (poker slang) A low card.
A coarse kind of rock, somewhat cellular in texture; ragstone.
* 2003 , (Peter Ackroyd), The Clerkenwell Tales , page 1:
To break (ore) into lumps for sorting.
To cut or dress roughly, as a grindstone.
To scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter.
To drive a car or another vehicle in a hard, fast or unsympathetic manner.
To tease or torment, especially at a university; to bully, to haze.
(dated) A prank or practical joke.
(UK, Ireland) A society run by university students for the purpose of charitable fundraising.
(obsolete, US) An informal dance party featuring music played by African-American string bands.
A ragtime song, dance or piece of music.
(video games, slang) A successful kill in a deathmatch game.
(military, slang) A fragmentation grenade.
(transitive, US, military, slang) To deliberately kill (one's superior officer) with a fragmentation grenade.
(transitive, military, and, video games, slang) To hit with the explosion of a fragmentation grenade.
(video games) To kill.
* 1996 , "Martin Cox", Stupid frags ...'' (on newsgroup ''rec.games.computer.doom.playing )
As nouns the difference between rag and frag
is that rag is tattered clothes while frag is a successful kill in a deathmatch game.As verbs the difference between rag and frag
is that rag is to become tattered while frag is to deliberately kill (one's superior officer) with a fragmentation grenade.rag
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) . Cognate with Swedish ragg.Noun
(en noun)- Virtue, though in rags , will keep me warm.
- Cowls, hoods, and habits, with their wearers, tossed, / And fluttered into rags .
- Not having otherwise any rag of legality to cover the shame of their cruelty.
- The other zealous rag is the compositor.
- Upon the proclamation, they all came in, both tag and rag .
- Our ship was a clipper with every rag set.
Derived terms
* on the rag * lose one's rag * ragwort * smell of an oily ragEtymology 2
origin; perhaps the same word as Etymology 1, above.Noun
(en noun)- the three walls around the garden, each one of thirty-three feet, were built out of three layers of stone — pebble stone, flint and rag stone.
Verb
(ragg)Etymology 3
Origin uncertain.Verb
(ragg)Derived terms
* rag the puck * rag onNoun
(en noun)Derived terms
* rag day * rag weekEtymology 4
Perhaps from (ragged). Compare later (ragtime).Noun
(en noun)Anagrams
*References
* Weisenberg, Michael (2000)The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523 ----
frag
English
Noun
(en noun)- I'd been fighting him for ages, and then you stole my frag !
Derived terms
* fragfestVerb
(fragg)- I fragged him once and then meleed him for the kill.
- I have pistol-fragged far superior players coming at me with a shotgun with 100% health.
- I fragged him but he fell off the ledge afterwards.