Associations to the word «Ragpicker»

Wiktionary

RAGPICKER, noun. A person who scavenges rags and other refuse for a living

Dictionary definition

RAGPICKER, noun. An unskilled person who picks up rags from trash cans and public dumps as a means of livelihood.

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.
Alexander Pope