Crossword clues for ragamuffin
ragamuffin
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ragamuffin \Rag`a*muf"fin\ (r[a^]g`[.a]*m[u^]f"f[i^]n), n. [Cf. Ragamofin, the name of a demon in some of the old mysteries.]
A paltry or disreputable fellow; a mean wretch.
--Dryden.A person who wears ragged clothing. [Colloq.]
(Zo["o]l.) The long-tailed titmouse. [Prov. Eng.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c., "demon," also in surnames (Isabella Ragamuffyn, 1344), from Middle English raggi "ragged" ("rag-y"?) + fanciful ending (or else second element is Middle Dutch muffe "mitten"). Or, as Johnson has it, "From rag and I know not what else." Ragged was used of the devil from c.1300 in reference to "shaggy" appearance. Raggeman was used by Langland as the name of a demon, and compare Old French Ragamoffyn, name of a demon in a mystery play. Sense of "dirty, disreputable boy" is from 1580s. Compare in the same sense ragabash (c.1600).
Wiktionary
n. 1 A dirty, shabby-clothed child; an urchin. 2 A breed of domestic cat which is an offshoot from the Ragdoll.
WordNet
n. a dirty shabbily clothed urchin [syn: tatterdemalion]
Wikipedia
Ragamuffin or Raggamuffin may refer to:
- Ragamuffin (cat)
- Raggamuffin music, or Ragga, a reggae subgenre
- Raggamuffin Music Festival, also nicknamed Raggamuffin
- Ragamuffin (novel), by Tobias S. Buckell
- "Raggamuffin" (song), a song by Selah Sue from her eponymous album
- The Ragamuffins, a musical group
- Ragamuffin, a 2014 film directed by David Schultz about Rich Mullins
- Ragamuffin, a series of racing yachts run by Australian Syd Fischer.
- Ragamuffin, a vampiric sidekick character in the comic book series Lenore, the Cute Little Dead Girl
- Ragamuffins, the nickname for farrapos rebels who were involved in an uprising that became known as the Ragamuffin War in Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil from 1835–1845
Ragamuffin is the second novel by Caribbean science fiction writer Tobias S. Buckell. It is the sequel to his first novel, Crystal Rain.
Buckell labeled Ragamuffin a "Caribbean space opera", with his previous novel being called "Caribbean steampunk". It is followed by his third novel, Sly Mongoose.
Ragamuffin was nominated for the 2007 Nebula award for best novel and was a finalist for the 2008 Prometheus Award.
Usage examples of "ragamuffin".
No bananas yet, so I called Glory Geis, who chortled happy welcome, and I fenderfought my way to the lake-shore fireside, where once again in the blue jump suit the graceful ragamuffin lady in her second widowhood plied me with a potion which sharpened the taste buds for what the kitchen would provide.
Heads of an assembly of ragamuffins and rising above them the head of Prudence Vizard, done to the life and exhorting the crowd.
She was no higher than his armpit and rather the ragamuffin in scuffed brown high-top shoes with knots in their strings and a sacky brown pinafore-shaped dress whose patch pockets sagged.
Good kids, saucy kids, adventurous kids, ragamuffins, scally wags and young varmints, they all meant the country was alive and well.
There he found the great pirate established at an ordinary, with a little court of ragamuffins and swashbucklers gathered about him, all talking very loud, and drinking healths in raw rum as though it were sugared water.
Gordon Square, he saw a small knot of ragamuffins clustered near a house that likely belonged to a wealthy merchant, as this was still east of the ultrafashionable Mayfair area.
There are, finally, the patriots: on the evening of the insurrection, between the Pont-au-Change and the Pont-Marie, the half-naked ragamuffins, besmeared with dirt, bearing along their hand-barrows, are fully alive to their cause.
Reiser, the center fielder nonpareil of the '40s and '50s, the man who had made the most hits, scored the most runs, and compiled the highest batting average in history, took a ragamuffin team that had finished last in 1968 and led them to first place with a miraculous combination of managerial insight and inspiration.
She would have given anything for a day with Roger and her Oxford ragamuffin friends, with a battle in the claybeds and a race along the canal.
A child I guessed must be Sabrina was squatting in the square of dirt beside the front walk—a grubby mop-headed ragamuffin wearing shorts but no T-shirt.
He and Edge were atop his rockaway, Daphne and Sunday riding inside, and, when they got as far as the boulevard de Courcelles, they found ragamuffin newsboys running about in unusual excitement, waving their newspapers and shouting, "Querelle à Prusse!
But her faith in the good spot which exists in the heart of the naughtiest, sauciest, most tantalizing little ragamuffin gave her patience, skill, and in time success, for no mortal boy could hold out long with Father Bhaer shining on him as benevolently as the sun, and Mother Bhaer forgiving him seventy times seven.