Polish English Dictionary

język polski - English

obszarpany in English:

1. Ragged


for 20 minutes Middlesbrough ran us ragged
i hear ragged shouts
The children were wearing dirty, ragged clothes.///////not performing well, because of not being organized: The team was rather ragged in the first half of the game.
A ragged coat may cover an honest man.
I dreamt that Congress effected sensible tax reform to improve the lot of the working class. I then woke up in a gutter with nothing but ragged clothes and a stolen guitar to my name.

English word "obszarpany"(Ragged) occurs in sets:

Dead in the water 1

2. tattered


The witch’s eyes moved from Scabbers’s tattered left ear
a tattered old letter
I will not read a tattered book.
... day that his precious, tattered motorcycle would be ripped...
A tattered flag which continues to flutter in the wind.
The stylists, in all their pompous, branded majesty, doubted that the girl who had just approached them was fixable: her clothes were greasy, tattered, and devoid of rhinestones and logos.