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Ragamuffin

//ˈɹæɡəˌmʌfɪn// noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    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."

  2. 2
    A domestic cat of a particular heavy, muscular, short-necked breed.
  3. 3
    a dirty shabbily clothed urchin wordnet
  4. 4
    A hooligan or troublemaker. slang
  5. 5
    Alternative letter-case form of Ragamuffin (“breed of domestic cat”). alt-of

Etymology

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.

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