rabble
rab·ble (rab′əl)
noun
a noisy, disorderly crowd; mob
Etymology: ME rabel < ? or akin to ML rabulus, brawling, noisy < L rabula, a brawling advocate < rabere: see rabid
transitive verb -·bled, -·bling
to attack as or by a rabble; mob
the rabble
the common people; the masses: a term of contempt
rab·ble (rab′əl)
noun
an iron bar used to stir and skim molten iron in puddling
Etymology: Fr râble < OFr roable < ML rotabulum, poker < L rutabulum, stirrer < ruere, to rake up < IE base *reu-, to dig up > rid, rubble
transitive verb -·bled, -·bling
to stir or skim with such a bar
Converse of object
- keep: Phil Marriott is the host of the Big Fun Breakfast - the guy who keeps the rabble in order.
- lead: Pam went quickly back into a past life where she had been a ragged peasant soldier who led a rabble into a village.
- disorganise: Much of the time London Critical Mass is what a judge might call a disorganized rabble.
- disorganize: The earthquake of Black Wednesday reduced a party built on a will to power to a squabbling and disorganized rabble.
- say: I would love aid in return it's inside and said rabble 's immediacy.
- call: Who is John Mingay calling rabble, the staff, children or the parents?
Converse of subject
- out: JOHN WHITE, trans. from Colmonell, adm. prior to Dec. 1686; outed by the rabble in 1689.
Adjective modifier
- drunken: The drunken rabble will then proceed to a variety of different hostelries before going for a curry.
- undisciplined: The Northern Alliance: West Ham - An undisciplined rabble in need of sponsorship dollars.
- rowdy: One corner of it has been frequented by a rowdy rabble of retired friends for almost 15 years.
- unruly: Despite a large proportion of the students being 'older ' we behaved like the unruly student rabble we would usually complain about!
- broken: We must do it while we are still strong enough to negotiate, and not a broken rabble led by brutal war lords.
Modifies a noun
- rouser: Oliver Reed is an English actor famous for being a rabble rousers.
- http://www.oxtales.co.uk/forums: Escape the rabble http://www.oxtales.co.uk/forums FK will be getting rent form OUFC and rent from Lindleys catering.
Noun used with modifier
- quot: Spare time quot rabble of amoral teams for the by the start.
Possessives
- immediacy: I would love aid in return it's inside and said rabble's immediacy.
Preposition: in
- order: Phil Marriott is the host of the Big Fun Breakfast - the guy who keeps the rabble in order.
Preposition: of
She is dying piece-meal of a sort of emotional anaemia. And round about there is a rabble of the filthy, sturdy, unkillable infants of the very poor.
Browse dictionary entries near rabble
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- Rabelais
- Rabelaisian
- Rabi
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