Definition of Ragamoffin
Rag`a*muf"fin (-mŭf"f&ibreve;n),
n. [Cf. Ragamofin, the name of a demon in
some of the old mysteries.] 1. A paltry or
disreputable fellow; a mean wretch. Dryden.
2. A person who wears ragged clothing.
[Colloq.]
3. (Zoöl.) The long-tailed
titmouse. [Prov. Eng.]
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
RAGAMUFFIN. A ragged fellow, one all in tatters, a
tatterdemallion.
- The Devil's Dictionary (Ambrose Bierce)
- a dirty, shabbily-clothed child; an urchin
- (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.
"I have led my ragamuffins where they are peppered." Shakespeare: I Henry IV, v, 3.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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