Associations to the word «Raffish»

Wiktionary

RAFFISH, adjective. Characterized by careless unconventionality; rakish.
RAFFISH, adjective. Low-class; disreputable; vulgar.

Dictionary definition

RAFFISH, adjective. Marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners; "a dapper young man"; "a jaunty red hat".
RAFFISH, adjective. Marked by a carefree unconventionality or disreputableness; "a cocktail party given by some...raffish bachelors"- Crary Moore.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats