Meaning

noun a small piece of cloth or paper

noun a week at British universities during which side-shows and processions of floats are organized to raise money for charities

noun music with a syncopated melody (usually for the piano)

originFrom Middle English ragge, from Old English ragg (suggested by derivative raggiġ (“shaggy; bristly; ragged”)), from Old Norse rǫgg (“tuft; shagginess”), from Proto-Germanic *rawwa-, probably related to *rūhaz. Cognate with Swedish ragg. Related to rug.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0