Definitions for ragging

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IPA: /ˈræg ɪŋ/

Ragging is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 81 anagrams from letters in ragging (aggginr).

Definitions for ragging

noun

1. (in the rolls of a rolling mill) corrugations affording a grip on a piece being roughed.
2. British. an act of ragging.
3. a musical composition in ragtime:

verb (used with object)

1. to scold.
2. to subject to a teasing, especially in an intense or prolonged way (often followed by on):
3. British. to torment with jokes; play crude practical jokes on.
4. to break up (lumps of ore) for sorting.
5. to play (music) in ragtime.

Origin of ragging

rag³ + -ing¹

Examples for ragging

We got ragging over the dessert and Mrs. Rose stole my grapes——?

They lay there for few minutes, talking and ragging aimlessly.

The farce of their performance is heightened by ragging from the courtiers.

Talbot did not quite know whether the fellow were ragging him or not.

How dyou expect a fellow to play if you go on ragging him like a fish-wife?

But the ragging of the study put this topic entirely in the shade.

That's Netta's fault; she starts all the ragging and throws it on to Gwen.

Refusing to say 'Good night' to the beast because he was ragging me.

So that he escaped the ragging he would have had to undergo at Wrykyn in similar circumstances.

We have been ragging him by suggesting his field-glasses must be faulty, and asking to see them.