ragamuffin
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ragamuffin¹
- /ˈɹæɡəˌmʌfɪn/
Where it comes from
From the Middle English Ragamuffyn. Of uncertain origin, according to Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: A muffin is a poor thing of a creature, a ‘regular muff’; so that a ragamuffin is a sorry creature in rags.
noun ragamuffins · raggamuffin
- A dirty, shabbily-clothed child; an urchin. I haue led my rag of Muffins where they are pepper'd: there's not three of my 150 left aliue; and they for the Townes end, to beg during life.
- A hooligan or troublemaker.
- Alternative letter-case form of Ragamuffin (“a breed of domestic cat”).
Ragamuffin²
noun Ragamuffins
- A domestic cat of a particular heavy, muscular, short-necked breed.
Translations
Every language
noun dirty, shabbily-clothed child
| Español | arrapiezo, andrajoso |
|---|---|
| Português | farrapo |
| Deutsch | Lumpenkind |
| Italiano | straccione |
| Русский | оборва́нец oborvánec, голодра́нец golodránec |
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