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The Vulgar Tongue on Nostr: TAG-RAG AND BOBTAIL. An expression meaning an assemblage of low people, the mobility ...

TAG-RAG AND BOBTAIL. An expression meaning an assemblage of low people, the mobility of all sorts. To tag after one like a tantony pig: to follow one wherever one goes, just as St. Anthony is followed by his pig.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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