Check my post again, you’ll see I said “According to a documentary on the history of English I saw on the BBC…”. So, the definition wasn’t conjured up in my imagination. Whether the BBC documentry was correct or not, is another matter - I don’t know. I was posting what I believed to be the correct definition, based what I had seen.
JESUS IN HEAVEN! RIFFRAFF IS A SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS SLUR!!! Nothing to do with these pitiful shells of flesh.
Is it possible to interpret a statement that in context may be seen as implicating racist ideas while using words that are not intrinsically racial slurs?
Thankfully, as we are in GQ, that argument will not happen here.
I always thought the definition of riffraff was “people who don’t show up at establishments with a cover charge.”