Definition of ragamuffin in English:

ragamuffin

(also raggamuffin)

noun ˈraɡəmʌfɪnˈræɡəˌməfən

1A person, typically a child, in ragged, dirty clothes.
衣衫褴褛肮脏的人（尤指儿童）
Example sentencesExamples
- The first was shorter, rat-faced kid in ragamuffin attire who Skye only knew by sight.
- Set on Thanksgiving, an artsy New York ragamuffin type tries to get dinner together for her estranged suburban family.
- I once met Keegan at Heathrow and he took the time out to have a talk with four ragamuffins, when some would have just walked past and ignored us.
- He knew he was taking a risk, but there was something about this scrawny little ragamuffin which made him feel desperately sorry for her.
- ‘We turned up like little raggamuffins,’ she recalled.
- Charity may begin at home, but without these kinds of outlets many people would be dressed like ragamuffins.
- I'm a ragamuffin in real life - I don't wear makeup, I don't brush my hair.
- The first time we met this ragamuffin she was very shy, but this time she was so friendly, full of confidence and holding our hands as we walked around.
- We have only recently come to live in Pattaya, but feel that we should be doing something to help some of the ragamuffin children we see around the streets.
- When I look back at the way I dressed, I think I looked part vagabond and part ragamuffin.
- ‘If I catch you I'm going to kiss you,’ yelled the ragamuffin, casting aside his sandwich box and hurtling off after her.
- Each boy is worth his time, and an adorable group of ragamuffins they are.
- Why had she even gone with the dirty little ragamuffin?
- Most people will see this film as a harmless piece of escapist whimsy, replete with cute ragamuffins, a performing dog, and old steam locomotives.
- Tonight, I was a street ragamuffin, ready to enjoy the finer things in life.
- I had to take care of ten little ragamuffins all by my lonesome.
- Bob looked like a ragamuffin, probably one of the things I found so appealing about him.
Synonyms
urchin, guttersnipe, waif
informal scarecrow
dated gamin, gamine
historical mudlark
archaic street Arab, wastrel, tatterdemalion
2An exponent or follower of ragga, typically one dressing in scruffy clothes.
拉格舞鼓吹者；拉格舞迷
as modifier ragamuffin style
Example sentencesExamples
- In addition to the chic sound of Paris which Solaar himself is most closely aligned to, there are groups like IAM which lead Marseille in its edgier, more recognisably ragamuffin style.
- He has the makings of a male model underneath his ragamuffin dreads.
- No R & B release these days would be complete without an appearance from Sean Paul, and the ragamuffin adds his trademark delivery to this song.
- Our own raggamuffins and slow-track rhythm artistes are leading us to an uneasy future.
1. 2.1
  another term for ragga
  Example sentencesExamples
  The three significant French magazines focusing exclusively on rap (and ragamuffin as well) are Radikal, Groove, and R.E.R. (for Rap Et Reggae).
  French-speaking blacks from the Caribbean launched ragamuffin - a musical form influenced by reggae and its associated musical styles - in France.
  A broad variety of musical inflections ranging from hard-core rap to reggae and raggamuffin distinguish French rap from U.S. rap and give it features more in common with British and Italian hip hop.
  In Italy, for instance, first-generation rappers of the early nineties endorsed a politicized and militant stance, and used rap and raggamuffin as vehicles of political and social protest.
  The question they are asking is how can digitally arranged Western R & B, raggamuffin and Hip Hop be called Zambian music?
  A distinctive musical syncretism also emerged among the Italian rap groups that pushed out the parameters of hip hop and more often than not became fused with raggamuffin reggae, dance hall, and ska influences.
  At the turn of the Nineties, the footballer would often celebrate his goals by running to the corner flag, and doing a ‘bogling’ move, a ragamuffin reggae dance then popular in the black community.

Origin

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

rag from Middle English:
A Scandinavian word for ‘tufted’ probably lies behind rag. In lose your rag (early 20th century) ‘to lose your temper’, rag is probably an old slang term for the tongue—the phrase was originally get your rag out. This sense of rag may well be behind the student rag or prank, found from the early 19th century, and the dated verb meaning ‘to tease, play a joke on’. From rags to riches describes someone's rise from a state of extreme poverty to great wealth, as in a fairytale like Cinderella. The concept is ancient, but the phrase was not recorded until the late 19th century, when a play called From Rags to Riches was mentioned in a US newspaper. A group of people regarded as disreputable or undesirable may be described as ragtag and bobtail. Bobtail (early 17th century) was an established term for a horse or dog with a docked tail, but rag and tag (LME of unknown origin) were separate words conveying the same meaning of ‘tattered or ragged clothes’. Putting them together gives you the literal sense of ‘people in ragged clothes together with their dogs and horses’. In one traditional folk song a lady leaves her house, land, and ‘new-wedded lord’ to run away with ‘the raggle-taggle gypsies’. Raggle-taggle (late 19th century) here is an elaboration of ragtag. Similarly ragamuffin is probably an elaboration of rag. The word is found once c.1400 as the name of a devil, but then not until 1586. The 1990s term ragga for a style of dance music is taken from ragamuffin, because of the style of clothing worn by its fans. Rug (mid 16th century), once a name for a type of coarse woollen cloth, is probably from the same root. The sense ‘small carpet’ dates from the early 19th century. So too is rugged (Middle English). ‘Shaggy’ was an early sense of rugged as was ‘rough-coated’ (in descriptions of horses).

Definition of ragamuffin in US English:

ragamuffin

nounˈræɡəˌməfənˈraɡəˌməfən

1A person, typically a child, in ragged, dirty clothes.
衣衫褴褛肮脏的人（尤指儿童）
Example sentencesExamples
- ‘We turned up like little raggamuffins,’ she recalled.
- The first time we met this ragamuffin she was very shy, but this time she was so friendly, full of confidence and holding our hands as we walked around.
- Each boy is worth his time, and an adorable group of ragamuffins they are.
- We have only recently come to live in Pattaya, but feel that we should be doing something to help some of the ragamuffin children we see around the streets.
- ‘If I catch you I'm going to kiss you,’ yelled the ragamuffin, casting aside his sandwich box and hurtling off after her.
- Tonight, I was a street ragamuffin, ready to enjoy the finer things in life.
- The first was shorter, rat-faced kid in ragamuffin attire who Skye only knew by sight.
- Charity may begin at home, but without these kinds of outlets many people would be dressed like ragamuffins.
- I'm a ragamuffin in real life - I don't wear makeup, I don't brush my hair.
- I once met Keegan at Heathrow and he took the time out to have a talk with four ragamuffins, when some would have just walked past and ignored us.
- When I look back at the way I dressed, I think I looked part vagabond and part ragamuffin.
- Most people will see this film as a harmless piece of escapist whimsy, replete with cute ragamuffins, a performing dog, and old steam locomotives.
- I had to take care of ten little ragamuffins all by my lonesome.
- Set on Thanksgiving, an artsy New York ragamuffin type tries to get dinner together for her estranged suburban family.
- Bob looked like a ragamuffin, probably one of the things I found so appealing about him.
- He knew he was taking a risk, but there was something about this scrawny little ragamuffin which made him feel desperately sorry for her.
- Why had she even gone with the dirty little ragamuffin?
Synonyms
urchin, guttersnipe, waif
2An exponent or follower of ragga, typically one dressing in ragged clothes.
拉格舞鼓吹者；拉格舞迷
as modifier ragamuffin style
Example sentencesExamples
- No R & B release these days would be complete without an appearance from Sean Paul, and the ragamuffin adds his trademark delivery to this song.
- Our own raggamuffins and slow-track rhythm artistes are leading us to an uneasy future.
- He has the makings of a male model underneath his ragamuffin dreads.
- In addition to the chic sound of Paris which Solaar himself is most closely aligned to, there are groups like IAM which lead Marseille in its edgier, more recognisably ragamuffin style.
1. 2.1
  another term for ragga
  Example sentencesExamples
  The question they are asking is how can digitally arranged Western R & B, raggamuffin and Hip Hop be called Zambian music?
  A distinctive musical syncretism also emerged among the Italian rap groups that pushed out the parameters of hip hop and more often than not became fused with raggamuffin reggae, dance hall, and ska influences.
  In Italy, for instance, first-generation rappers of the early nineties endorsed a politicized and militant stance, and used rap and raggamuffin as vehicles of political and social protest.
  A broad variety of musical inflections ranging from hard-core rap to reggae and raggamuffin distinguish French rap from U.S. rap and give it features more in common with British and Italian hip hop.
  French-speaking blacks from the Caribbean launched ragamuffin - a musical form influenced by reggae and its associated musical styles - in France.
  At the turn of the Nineties, the footballer would often celebrate his goals by running to the corner flag, and doing a ‘bogling’ move, a ragamuffin reggae dance then popular in the black community.
  The three significant French magazines focusing exclusively on rap (and ragamuffin as well) are Radikal, Groove, and R.E.R. (for Rap Et Reggae).

Origin

Middle English: probably based on rag, with a fanciful suffix.

单词	ragamuffin
释义	Definition of ragamuffin in English: ragamuffin (also raggamuffin) noun ˈraɡəmʌfɪnˈræɡəˌməfən 1A person, typically a child, in ragged, dirty clothes. 衣衫褴褛肮脏的人（尤指儿童） Example sentencesExamples The first was shorter, rat-faced kid in ragamuffin attire who Skye only knew by sight. Set on Thanksgiving, an artsy New York ragamuffin type tries to get dinner together for her estranged suburban family. I once met Keegan at Heathrow and he took the time out to have a talk with four ragamuffins, when some would have just walked past and ignored us. He knew he was taking a risk, but there was something about this scrawny little ragamuffin which made him feel desperately sorry for her. ‘We turned up like little raggamuffins,’ she recalled. Charity may begin at home, but without these kinds of outlets many people would be dressed like ragamuffins. I'm a ragamuffin in real life - I don't wear makeup, I don't brush my hair. The first time we met this ragamuffin she was very shy, but this time she was so friendly, full of confidence and holding our hands as we walked around. We have only recently come to live in Pattaya, but feel that we should be doing something to help some of the ragamuffin children we see around the streets. When I look back at the way I dressed, I think I looked part vagabond and part ragamuffin. ‘If I catch you I'm going to kiss you,’ yelled the ragamuffin, casting aside his sandwich box and hurtling off after her. Each boy is worth his time, and an adorable group of ragamuffins they are. Why had she even gone with the dirty little ragamuffin? Most people will see this film as a harmless piece of escapist whimsy, replete with cute ragamuffins, a performing dog, and old steam locomotives. Tonight, I was a street ragamuffin, ready to enjoy the finer things in life. I had to take care of ten little ragamuffins all by my lonesome. Bob looked like a ragamuffin, probably one of the things I found so appealing about him. Synonyms urchin, guttersnipe, waif informal scarecrow dated gamin, gamine historical mudlark archaic street Arab, wastrel, tatterdemalion 2An exponent or follower of ragga, typically one dressing in scruffy clothes. 拉格舞鼓吹者；拉格舞迷 as modifier ragamuffin style Example sentencesExamples In addition to the chic sound of Paris which Solaar himself is most closely aligned to, there are groups like IAM which lead Marseille in its edgier, more recognisably ragamuffin style. He has the makings of a male model underneath his ragamuffin dreads. No R & B release these days would be complete without an appearance from Sean Paul, and the ragamuffin adds his trademark delivery to this song. Our own raggamuffins and slow-track rhythm artistes are leading us to an uneasy future. 2.1 another term for ragga Example sentencesExamples The three significant French magazines focusing exclusively on rap (and ragamuffin as well) are Radikal, Groove, and R.E.R. (for Rap Et Reggae). French-speaking blacks from the Caribbean launched ragamuffin - a musical form influenced by reggae and its associated musical styles - in France. A broad variety of musical inflections ranging from hard-core rap to reggae and raggamuffin distinguish French rap from U.S. rap and give it features more in common with British and Italian hip hop. In Italy, for instance, first-generation rappers of the early nineties endorsed a politicized and militant stance, and used rap and raggamuffin as vehicles of political and social protest. The question they are asking is how can digitally arranged Western R & B, raggamuffin and Hip Hop be called Zambian music? A distinctive musical syncretism also emerged among the Italian rap groups that pushed out the parameters of hip hop and more often than not became fused with raggamuffin reggae, dance hall, and ska influences. At the turn of the Nineties, the footballer would often celebrate his goals by running to the corner flag, and doing a ‘bogling’ move, a ragamuffin reggae dance then popular in the black community. Origin Middle English: probably based on rag¹, with a fanciful suffix. rag from Middle English: A Scandinavian word for ‘tufted’ probably lies behind rag. In lose your rag (early 20th century) ‘to lose your temper’, rag is probably an old slang term for the tongue—the phrase was originally get your rag out. This sense of rag may well be behind the student rag or prank, found from the early 19th century, and the dated verb meaning ‘to tease, play a joke on’. From rags to riches describes someone's rise from a state of extreme poverty to great wealth, as in a fairytale like Cinderella. The concept is ancient, but the phrase was not recorded until the late 19th century, when a play called From Rags to Riches was mentioned in a US newspaper. A group of people regarded as disreputable or undesirable may be described as ragtag and bobtail. Bobtail (early 17th century) was an established term for a horse or dog with a docked tail, but rag and tag (LME of unknown origin) were separate words conveying the same meaning of ‘tattered or ragged clothes’. Putting them together gives you the literal sense of ‘people in ragged clothes together with their dogs and horses’. In one traditional folk song a lady leaves her house, land, and ‘new-wedded lord’ to run away with ‘the raggle-taggle gypsies’. Raggle-taggle (late 19th century) here is an elaboration of ragtag. Similarly ragamuffin is probably an elaboration of rag. The word is found once c.1400 as the name of a devil, but then not until 1586. The 1990s term ragga for a style of dance music is taken from ragamuffin, because of the style of clothing worn by its fans. Rug (mid 16th century), once a name for a type of coarse woollen cloth, is probably from the same root. The sense ‘small carpet’ dates from the early 19th century. So too is rugged (Middle English). ‘Shaggy’ was an early sense of rugged as was ‘rough-coated’ (in descriptions of horses). Definition of ragamuffin in US English: ragamuffin nounˈræɡəˌməfənˈraɡəˌməfən 1A person, typically a child, in ragged, dirty clothes. 衣衫褴褛肮脏的人（尤指儿童） Example sentencesExamples ‘We turned up like little raggamuffins,’ she recalled. The first time we met this ragamuffin she was very shy, but this time she was so friendly, full of confidence and holding our hands as we walked around. Each boy is worth his time, and an adorable group of ragamuffins they are. We have only recently come to live in Pattaya, but feel that we should be doing something to help some of the ragamuffin children we see around the streets. ‘If I catch you I'm going to kiss you,’ yelled the ragamuffin, casting aside his sandwich box and hurtling off after her. Tonight, I was a street ragamuffin, ready to enjoy the finer things in life. The first was shorter, rat-faced kid in ragamuffin attire who Skye only knew by sight. Charity may begin at home, but without these kinds of outlets many people would be dressed like ragamuffins. I'm a ragamuffin in real life - I don't wear makeup, I don't brush my hair. I once met Keegan at Heathrow and he took the time out to have a talk with four ragamuffins, when some would have just walked past and ignored us. When I look back at the way I dressed, I think I looked part vagabond and part ragamuffin. Most people will see this film as a harmless piece of escapist whimsy, replete with cute ragamuffins, a performing dog, and old steam locomotives. I had to take care of ten little ragamuffins all by my lonesome. Set on Thanksgiving, an artsy New York ragamuffin type tries to get dinner together for her estranged suburban family. Bob looked like a ragamuffin, probably one of the things I found so appealing about him. He knew he was taking a risk, but there was something about this scrawny little ragamuffin which made him feel desperately sorry for her. Why had she even gone with the dirty little ragamuffin? Synonyms urchin, guttersnipe, waif 2An exponent or follower of ragga, typically one dressing in ragged clothes. 拉格舞鼓吹者；拉格舞迷 as modifier ragamuffin style Example sentencesExamples No R & B release these days would be complete without an appearance from Sean Paul, and the ragamuffin adds his trademark delivery to this song. Our own raggamuffins and slow-track rhythm artistes are leading us to an uneasy future. He has the makings of a male model underneath his ragamuffin dreads. In addition to the chic sound of Paris which Solaar himself is most closely aligned to, there are groups like IAM which lead Marseille in its edgier, more recognisably ragamuffin style. 2.1 another term for ragga Example sentencesExamples The question they are asking is how can digitally arranged Western R & B, raggamuffin and Hip Hop be called Zambian music? A distinctive musical syncretism also emerged among the Italian rap groups that pushed out the parameters of hip hop and more often than not became fused with raggamuffin reggae, dance hall, and ska influences. In Italy, for instance, first-generation rappers of the early nineties endorsed a politicized and militant stance, and used rap and raggamuffin as vehicles of political and social protest. A broad variety of musical inflections ranging from hard-core rap to reggae and raggamuffin distinguish French rap from U.S. rap and give it features more in common with British and Italian hip hop. French-speaking blacks from the Caribbean launched ragamuffin - a musical form influenced by reggae and its associated musical styles - in France. At the turn of the Nineties, the footballer would often celebrate his goals by running to the corner flag, and doing a ‘bogling’ move, a ragamuffin reggae dance then popular in the black community. The three significant French magazines focusing exclusively on rap (and ragamuffin as well) are Radikal, Groove, and R.E.R. (for Rap Et Reggae). Origin Middle English: probably based on rag, with a fanciful suffix.
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