Definitions for raffish

raffish raff·ish

Spelling: [raf-ish]
IPA: /ˈræf ɪʃ/

Raffish is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 113 anagrams from letters in raffish (affhirs).

Definitions for raffish

adjective

  1. mildly or sometimes engagingly disreputable or nonconformist; rakish:
  2. gaudily vulgar or cheap; tawdry.

Origin of raffish

First recorded in 1795-1805; raff + -ish1

Examples for raffish

And oh the raffish counts and more than doubtful countesses, the noodles and the blacklegs, the good society!

Visiting him in his room at the raffish Chelsea Hotel, I noticed that there was a crumpled cigarette package under the bed.

raffish and flamboyant, he lounged forward to the window of the carriage.

If they could do that, need they ever have shot that raffish old lord—I beg pardon, my dear—your highly respected grandfather?

The raffish young gentleman in gloves must measure his scholarship with the plain, clownish laddie from the parish school.

raffish party too, spy and conspirator persuasion, that sort of thing.

But she had an untidy, touzled, raffish appearance, due to I knew not what investiture of disrepute.

You see, he is himself pater familias, with no Bohemian trait or raffish turn.

And there are screeching Cockney women, raw and raffish, brutalized children, and men who would survive in the fiercest jungle.

The raffish mongrel was apparently endeavouring to fletcherize a complete stranger of the Sealyham family.

Word Value for raffish
Scrable

16

Words with friends

15

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