raff

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

noun

A promiscuous heap or collection; a jumble; a medley.

noun

Trashy material; lumber; rubbish; refuse.

noun

Abundance; affluence.

noun

A worthless or disorderly person; a rowdy; a scapegrace: now applied to students of Oxford by the townspeople.

noun

Collectively, worthless persons; the scum or sweepings of society; the rabble. Compare riffraff.

Idle; dissolute.

transitive verb

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

noun

A promiscuous heap; a jumble; a large quantity; lumber; refuse.

noun

The sweepings of society; the rabble; the mob; — chiefly used in the compound or duplicate, riffraff.