Raffish

Definition: Raffish

Raffish

Adjective

1. Marked by smartness in dress and manners; "a dapper young man"; "a jaunty red hat".

2. Marked by a carefree unconventionality or disreputableness; "a cocktail party given by some...raffish bachelors"- Crary Moore.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Raffish

Commonalty

Rustic, uncivilized; loutish, boorish, clownish, churlish, brutish, raffish; rude, unlicked.

Books

• The Dictionary of Contemporary Slang: With More Than 5,000 Racy and Raffish Colloquial Expressions-From America, Great Britain, Australia, the Carib (reference)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Albanian

vulgar (banal, coarse, common, gross, low, low-lived, low-minded, ribald, tawdry, vulgar, vulgarian), i pagdhendur (artless, bearish, crass, Hick, hillbilly, loutish, lowlife, oafish, rank, rough, uncouth, unhewn). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فاسق (bawdy, debauched, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, don juan, fornicator, immoral, lascivious, lecherous, lewd, libertine, licentious, light, lubricious, miscreant, obscene, philanderer, profligate, punk, rakish, scab, scarlet, slippery, unchaste, uninhibited, wanton), ‏سافل (black sheep, dirty, immoral, low, mean, pedestrian, varmint), ‏داعر (bawdy, lascivious, lecherous, lewd, libidinous, light, mean, naughty, obscene, obscenity, pornographic, salacious, scarlet, sensual, wanton). (various references)

Bulgarian 

разгулен (bacchanal, dissipated, rackety), разпуснат (dissolute, fast, free, gay, incontinent, lax, loose, profligate, rakish, self-abandoned, ungovernable, unregenerated, unsteady, wanton), вулгарен (caddish, coarse, common, doggish, gross, gutter, loud, low, low-minded, raw, scurrilous, underbred, unedifying, vulgar), просташки (blatant, caddish, jazz, jumped-up, loud, low-minded, oafish, ornery, philistine, rank, rough, rude, savage, swinish, tasteless, underbred, unrefined, vulgar). (various references)

Czech

zpustlý (debauched, depraved, desolate, dissolute, rakish, uncared for, vicious), vyžilý. (various references)

French

qui mène une vie dissolue, libertin (rakish), dissolu (rakish). (various references)

German

liederlich (cockish, dissipated, dissipatedly, dissolute, licentious, loose, negligent, ribald, slatternly, sloppy, slovenly, wanton, wantonly). (various references)

Greek 

μάγκικοσ (slangy), πρόστυχοσ (bitchy, caddish, cheap, coarse, common, hangdog, ignoble, lawbred, lewd, low, lowdown, low-minded, mean, ornery, ratty, scurrilous, scurvy, shabby, shoddy, sordid, vile, vulgar), διεφθαρμένοσ (corrupt, decadent, depraved, vitiated). (various references)

Hebrew 

זול ומופקר. (various references)

Hungarian

ordináré, züllött (debauched, depraved, dissipated, lecherous, lewd, libertine, perverse, perverted), rossz hírű (disreputable, infamous), mulatozó (reveler, reveller, rollicker), léha (dissolute, flighty, frivolous, lewd, light, loose fish, ribald, vacuous), korhely (debauchee, guzzler, rake, rakehell, sot), hitvány (bloody, caddish, dastardly, despicable, grovelling, mean, naught, perfidious, pitiable, punk, rascally, rinky-dink, rubbishy, scummy, scurvied, scurvy, shoddy, skunk, sordid, squalid, tin-pot, trashy, vile, worthless), elhanyagolt (dingy, down at the heel, forlorn, neglected, raggedy-ass, raunchy, scruffy, sleazo, sleazy, uncared for, untended). (various references)

Italian

licenzioso (debauched, dissipated, dissolute, frolicsome, indecent, lawless, licentious, loose, obscene, profligate, ribald, riotous, rollicking, unchecked, undisciplined, unrestrained, wanton, wild), dissipato (dissipated, fast), cafone (boor, peasant, rustic). (various references)

Manx

raistylagh (dissolute, dissoluteness, lecherous, rakish). (various references)

Pig Latin

affishray.(various references)

Portuguese

libertino (free thinker, lascivious, lecherous, libertine, lothario, lovelace, playboy, profligate, rake, rakish, rep, ribald, rioter, roue, salacious, wanton, wasteful), depravado (bestial, depraved, deviant, miscreant, profligate, rep, vicious, vile, wasteful), com má fama (notorious), baixo (base, bass, bass voice, basso, caitiff, common, dumpy, dwarfish, hereinafter, hollow, ignoble, lily-livered, low, low-down, lowered, mean, mediocre, menial, nether, obsequious, pygmean, rascally, reptile, scummy, scurrilous, scurvy, servile, shallow, short, slavish, small, sordid, superficial, vulgar, vulgarian). (various references)

Romanian

desfrânat (abandoned, bad, debauched, dissipated, dissolute, incontinent, lewd, lickerish, lustful, man of pleasure, meretricious, profligate, rake, rakish, reinless, reprobate, reveller, ribald, rioter, riotous, rip, ruttish, salacious, unchaste, unrestrained, unruly, wanton, whoremaster). (various references)

Russian 

беспутный (dissolute, fast, gay, scampish). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

vulgaran (vulgar), dripački. (various references)

Spanish

disoluto (debauchee, dissolute, loose, profligate, rakish). (various references)

Swedish

raffig, vräkig (extravagant, flash, flashy, flaunty), prålig (flamboyant, flash, flashy, fussy, garish, gaudy, meretricious, showy, sporty, tawdry). (various references)

Thai

โอ้อว�" (ostentatious). (various references)

Turkish

rezil (abject, contemptible, crud, dirty, dishonorable, dishonourable, disreputable, flagitious, flagrant, groveling, grovelling, ignoble, ignominious, infamous, low down, outrageous, rascal, scandal, scandalous, scoundrel, shameful, sinner, stinking, sweep, vile, villainous), hovarda (chaser, dissolute, gadabout, gay, libertine, licentious, masher, profligate, rake, rakish, rascal, riotous, rip, spark, sybarite, vagabond, wild), gösterişçi (faker, ham, pretentious, show off, showy, swanky). (various references)

Ukrainian

вульгарний (banal, blatant, caddish, coarse, gross, low, low down, non-u, parvenu, unladylike, vapid, vulgar, vulgarian), безпутний (dissipated, gay, rowdy). (various references)

Vietnamese 

trác táng hèn hạ, phóng đãng (immoral, profligate, riotous), hư hỏng (fly-blown), đê tiện tầm thường. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "raffish": raffishly, raffishness, raffishnesses. (additional references)

Words ending with "raffish": draffish, giraffish. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Raffish" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Naffah, raffes, raffi, raffishly, rafish. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: sharif.

-2 letters: fairs, fiars, hafis, hairs, raffs, riffs.

-3 letters: airs, arfs, fair, fash, fiar, firs, fish, hair, raff, rash, rias, riff, rifs, sari, shri.

-4 letters: aff, air, ais, arf, ars, ash, far, fas, fir, has, his, iff, ifs, rah, ras, ria, rif, sha, sir, sri.

-5 letters: ah, ai, ar, as, fa, ha, hi, if, is.

+1 letter: draffish.

+2 letters: affrights, giraffish, raffishly.

+3 letters: frameshift.

+4 letters: frameshifts, raffishness.

+5 letters: cliffhangers.