RAGAMUFFIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ragamuffin mean? 

• RAGAMUFFIN (noun)
  The noun RAGAMUFFIN has 1 sense:

1. a dirty shabbily clothed urchin

  Familiarity information: RAGAMUFFIN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RAGAMUFFIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A dirty shabbily clothed urchin

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

ragamuffin; tatterdemalion

Hypernyms ("ragamuffin" is a kind of...):

urchin (poor and often mischievous city child)

 Context examples 

Then, when I've got a start, I can take in a ragamuffin or two, just for a relish.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The giant looked contemptuously at the tailor, and said: “You ragamuffin! You miserable creature!”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Of course it was uphill work at first, and Jo made queer mistakes, but the wise Professor steered her safely into calmer waters, and the most rampant ragamuffin was conquered in the end.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

But her faith in the good spot which exists in the heart of the naughtiest, sauciest, most tantalizing little ragamuffin gave her patience, skill, and in time success, for no mortal boy could hold out long with Father Bhaer shining on him as benevolently as the sun, and Mother Bhaer forgiving him seventy times seven.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)