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Ragamuffin   Listen
noun
Ragamuffin  n.  
1.
A paltry or disreputable fellow; a mean wretch.
2.
A person who wears ragged clothing. (Colloq.)
3.
(Zool.) The long-tailed titmouse. (Prov. Eng.)





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"Ragamuffin" Quotes from Famous Books



... a man could do that, and come into the world again with two sound legs, you'd see me disappear oversea double-quick, whoop! I wouldn't stay messing about here any longer.... Well, have you seen your navel yet to-day? Yes, you ragamuffin, you laugh; but I'm in earnest. It would pay you well if you always began the day ...
— Pelle the Conqueror, Complete • Martin Andersen Nexo
... she gasped between sobs. "Don't let him get me, don't." And even in that broken plea I took it in that the little ragamuffin did not speak the jargon of that slum, but the pure ...
— The Door Through Space • Marion Zimmer Bradley
... he thought of it. And why had he told it? A sudden impulse, a sudden fear, had led him into sin. A strange fancy had whispered to him, "What if that boy buried by the wall yonder should be the wonder-child, the ragamuffin who looked at the rainbow, the sea urchin, the spectre haunting your guest?" How unlikely that was! And yet ships go far, and the human fate is often mysteriously sad. It might be that the wonder-child was born ...
— Tongues of Conscience • Robert Smythe Hichens
... by the deadly pallor of his face, relieved only by a reddening bump beneath the right eye. His clothes also were dirty and disheveled till he seemed scarcely the superior in elegance of the little ragamuffin behind him. ...
— Captivating Mary Carstairs • Henry Sydnor Harrison
... upward tilting, he did not appear to be at all proud of the fact that he was riding; and One-Eye fell to watching him, that green eye round with wonder. For here was this little ragamuffin seated high and dry in a first class taxi, and speeding through the city in style, yet with the supreme ...
— The Rich Little Poor Boy • Eleanor Gates


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