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ragamuffin

WordNet
  1. (n) ragamuffin
    a dirty shabbily clothed urchin
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Ragamuffin
    A paltry or disreputable fellow; a mean wretch.
  2. Ragamuffin
    A person who wears ragged clothing.
  3. Ragamuffin
    (Zoöl) The long-tailed titmouse.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) ragamuffin
    The name of a demon.
  2. (n) ragamuffin
    An idle, worthless fellow; a vagabond; now, especially, a disreputably ragged or slovenly person: formerly used as a general term of reprehension.
  3. (n) ragamuffin
    A titmouse: same as mufflin.
  4. ragamuffin
    Base; beggarly; ragged or disorderly.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. Ragamuffin
    a low, disreputable person
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary Cf. Ragamofin, the name of a demon in some of the old mysteries

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary Ice. rögg, shagginess.

Usage in the news

No motion picture actor so captured and enthralled the world as did Charles Spencer Chaplin, a London ragamuffin who became an immortal artist for his deft and effective humanization of man's tragicomic conflicts with fate. nytimes.com

Jewelry designer Flora Davis has created some pieces using fur from her gorgeous flame point Ragamuffin, Gaia, whose super soft white fur looks just like cotton. ohio.com

Goblins, ghouls, bumblebees and even Supergirl were on hand Saturday for the annual Ragamuffin Parade in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. nydailynews.com

Like most events slated for Halloween week, the traditional Hoboken Ragamuffin Parade was postponed. hudsonreporter.com

Ragamuffin Parade a rousing ride for Ridge rugrats. brooklynpaper.com

Wes Wesolowski's "Ragamuffin" 472 '63. superchevy.com

Usage in literature

And because some young ragamuffins were insolent to you, my nephew must lower himself to their level. "The Lost Middy" by George Manville Fenn

Here, I know: set some one to find that ragamuffin Pegg. "Trapped by Malays" by George Manville Fenn

Conde's ragamuffins, and they are yelling for M. de Lalande. "My Sword's My Fortune" by Herbert Hayens

Some o' those ragamuffin rebels might be on this side of the river. "Washington Crossing the Delaware" by Henry Fisk Carlton

A beastly set of ragamuffins! "The Land of Thor" by J. Ross Browne

There was waggon after waggon, swarming with ragamuffins of both sexes and all ages. "Home Life in Germany" by Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick

Drones, ragamuffins, and rodneys cannot grumble if they get kicked out of the hive. "Gipsy Life being an account of our Gipsies and their children" by George Smith

Swarming mobs of ragamuffins had occupied the points farthest projecting seaward. "Mayflower (Flor de mayo)" by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

In a second, the half-witted, ragamuffin Smiler bobbed his grinning face round the door post. "The Spoilers of the Valley" by Robert Watson

First, the police cleared the way; the ragamuffins were driven into the street. "Melomaniacs" by James Huneker

Usage in poetry
He the bland canaster puffing,
As upon his round he paces,
Sudden sees a ragamuffin
Clambering swiftly up the glacis.
"The Legend Of St. Sophia Of Kioff" by William Makepeace Thackeray Author object (711)
When full of tay and cake,
O'Brine began to spake;
But juice a one could hear him, for a sudden roar
Of a ragamuffin rout
Began to yell and shout,
And frighten the propriety of Shannon shore.
"The Battle Of Limerick" by William Makepeace Thackeray Author object (711)