ragamuffin

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  1. noun A shabbily clothed, dirty child.

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  • The censorship has ruined the role of a little legitimist ragamuffin, so that the play, conceived in the spirit of strict unpartisanship, has now to flatter the reactionaries: a result that distresses me. —  The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters
  • George looked out for the ragamuffin girl, but she didn't appear again. —  Five Fall Into Adventure
  • She didn't feel comfortable being called "m'lady" - especially not when she looked like a ragamuffin. —  Moonheart
  • "I've got a cousin who'd like a ragamuffin like you - a bad little girl with a very good heart. —  Five Fall Into Adventure
  • " said the dirty little ragamuffin, standing up and doubling his fists again. —  Five Fall Into Adventure
 

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English Ragamuffyn, a personal name : probably raggi, ragged (from ragge, rag; see rag1) + Middle Dutch moffel, muffe, mitten; see muff2.

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  1. Early modern English also raggemuffin, ragamofin, ragomofin; erroneously analyzed rag-a-muffin, rag of Muffins; from Middle English Ragamoffyn, the name of a demon, prob., like many other names of demons, merely fanciful. The present sense has been partly determined by association with rag. For the sense ‘demon,’ cf. ragman.
 

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/ˈrægəməfɪn/
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