Ragamuffin

//ˈɹæɡəˌmʌfɪn//

"Ragamuffin" in a Sentence (9 examples)

You look like a ragamuffin.

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.

“But may I inquire how you intend to support the establishment? If all the pupils are little ragamuffins, I’m afraid your crop won’t be profitable in a worldly sense, Mrs. Bhaer.”

"They called her a little blue raggamuffin, father," said Harry, who ran in, looking very angry; "but I have given it to them, they won't insult my sister again.[…]"

'Yes, he is mine—I took him, a homeless little ragamuffin, but I saw what was in him, and I said his name would be heard some day—behold him, observe him—was I right?'

After walking a ways, Jurgis met a little ragamuffin whom he hailed: "Hey, sonny!"

He had found out the house of Frau von Einem without much trouble, and had performed with his ragamuffins in the servants' quarters.

A boy of the cheery gypsy ragamuffin variety.

It features other small ones—a bunch of Dickensian ragamuffins and their leader played by Ron Moody in Oliver!—You've Got to Pick a Pocket Or Two.

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