Subscriber login


Forgot your password?

Library card login

Other

ragamuffin

Pronunciation: /ˈragəmʌfɪn/
(also raggamuffin)
Translate ragamuffin | into Italian | into Spanish
Definition of ragamuffin

noun

  • 1a person, typically a child, in ragged, dirty clothes.
  • 2an exponent or follower of ragga, typically one dressing in scruffy clothes: [as modifier]:ragamuffin style
  • another term for ragga.

Origin:

Middle English: probably based on rag1, with a fanciful suffix

ragamuffin in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of ragamuffin in the US English dictionary

Nearby words

  |  Cite

More results for ragamuffin

Result list for ragamuffin

Word of the day

epithalamium

/ ˌɛpɪθəˈleɪmɪəm /
noun
a song or poem celebrating a marriage …