ragamuffin

Related topics: Children

rag·a·muf·fin /ˈræɡəˌmʌfɪn/ noun [countableC]

literarySSCDC a dirty young child wearing torn clothes 衣衫褴褛的脏孩子

Examples from the Corpus

ragamuffin• A ragamuffin was walking up and down the rows of benches begging from anyone who was awake.• A few well-dressed Yanks are to be sprinkled among 600 soldiers and ragamuffins.• Fancy, gentlemen in velvet scrapping like ragamuffins!• Last night his hourly wage, about £8 in loose change was nicked from under his nose by scavenging ragamuffins.• And the ragamuffin kids: unwashed kids, hungry kids, artful kids, verminous kids, nice kids and unholy terrors.• It's only the ragamuffins chasing Caesar down the Fosse Way.

Origin ragamuffin

(1300-1400) Ragamoffyn, evil spirit in the 14th-century poem Piers Plowman by William Langland

词汇	ragamuffin
释义	ragamuffin Related topics: Children rag·a·muf·fin /ˈræɡəˌmʌfɪn/ noun [countableC] literarySSCDC a dirty young child wearing torn clothes 衣衫褴褛的脏孩子 Examples from the Corpus ragamuffin• A ragamuffin was walking up and down the rows of benches begging from anyone who was awake.• A few well-dressed Yanks are to be sprinkled among 600 soldiers and ragamuffins.• Fancy, gentlemen in velvet scrapping like ragamuffins!• Last night his hourly wage, about £8 in loose change was nicked from under his nose by scavenging ragamuffins.• And the ragamuffin kids: unwashed kids, hungry kids, artful kids, verminous kids, nice kids and unholy terrors.• It's only the ragamuffins chasing Caesar down the Fosse Way. Origin ragamuffin (1300-1400) Ragamoffyn, evil spirit in the 14th-century poem Piers Plowman by William Langland
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