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
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.