ragamuffin

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A dirty, shabbily-clothed child; an urchin.
    — I haue led my rag of Muffins where they are pepper'd: there's not three of my 150 left aliue; and they for the Townes end, to beg during life.
  2. A hooligan or troublemaker. slang
  3. Alternative letter-case form of Ragamuffin (“breed of domestic cat”). alt-of

词形变化

ragamuffins plural raggamuffin alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
ragamuffinism ragamuffinly rajamuffin
相关词
in rags

词源

From the Middle English Ragamuffyn. Of uncertain origin, 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.
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