ragamuffin
Senso (Inglese)
- A dirty, shabbily-clothed child; an urchin.
- (slang) A hooligan or troublemaker.
- (alt-of) Alternative letter-case form of Ragamuffin (“breed of domestic cat”).
Concetti
sinonimi
ragged fellow
naughty boy
shake-rag
s.o.b.
Traduzioni
Pronunciato come (IPA)
/ˈɹæɡəˌmʌfɪn/
Etimologia (Inglese)
In summary
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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