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Definition: Ragamuffin |
RagamuffinNoun1. A dirty shabbily clothed urchin. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "ragamuffin" was first used: 1344. (references) |
Note: Ragamuffin \Rag`a*muf"fin\, noun. [Compare to Ragamofin, the name of demon in some of the old mysteries.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Literature | Ragamuffin (French, maroufle). A muff or muffin is a poor thing of a creature, a "regular muff;" so that a ragamuffin is a sorry creature in rags. "I have led my ragamuffins where they are peppered."- Shakespeare: 1 Henry IV., v. 3. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Slang in 1811 | RAGAMUFFIN. A ragged fellow, one all in tatters, atatterdemallion. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: RagamuffinSynonym: tatterdemalion (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Commonalty | Beggar, gaberlunzie, muckworm, mudlark, sans culotte, raff, tatterdemalion, caitiff, ragamuffin, Pariah, outcast of society, tramp, vagabond, bezonian, panhandler, sundowner, chiffonnier, Cinderella, cinderwench, scrub, jade; gossoon. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Movie/TV Titles | The Ragamuffin (1916) | |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He was a wretch, a kind of mendicant musician, a lazy ragamuffin, who beat her, and who left her, as she had taken him, with disgust. |
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| "Ragamuffin" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Ragamuffin" is used about 13 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 13 | 97,576 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
ragamuffin | 47 |
ragamuffin cat | 43 |
ragamuffin gospel | 10 |
kitten ragamuffin | 10 |
ragamuffin band | 7 |
breeders ragamuffin | 5 |
lenore ragamuffin | 5 |
breeders cat ragamuffin | 4 |
cats.com ragamuffin | 2 |
breed cat ragamuffin | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ragamuffin"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | djalë rrugësh (dead end kid, Gamin, guttersnipe, mudlark). (various references) | |
Arabic | متسول (beggar, mendicant, panhandler, sponger), نذل (cad, rascally, scoundrel, scoundrelly, villainous), ولد مؤذي (monkey), غلام رث الثياب, حافي القدمين (barefoot, barefooted), صعلوك (vile, wretch). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | гаврош (street urchin), гамен (guttersnipe, larrikin), парцалан (tatterdemalion), дрипльо (clothes-man, tatterdemalion, tatters). (various references) | |
Czech | ulièník (guttersnipe, nipper, rascal, scamp, urchin), otrhanec. (various references) | |
Farsi | ژنده پوش (Tatter), ژولیده (Disheveled, Draggy, Slovenly, Uncouth, Unkempt), ادم کثیف وبی سروپا. (various references) | |
Finnish | ryysyläinen. (various references) | |
French | va-nu-pied, polisson (rascal), gueux, galopin. (various references) | |
German | vogelscheuche (bird frightening device, bird scarer, fright, scarecrow), göre (hussy, little miss), bengel (boy, brat, rascal, urchin, urchins, villain). (various references) | |
Greek | κουρελιάρησ, ρακένδυτοσ, παλιόπαιδο (brat, naughty boy, scapegrace). (various references) | |
Hebrew | יחפן (barefooted, hooligan, tramp), לבוש קרעים, פרחח (brat, hoodlum, hooligan, roughneck, rowdy, tearaway, urchin, youngster). (various references) | |
Hungarian | toprongyos alak. (various references) | |
Indonesian | gembel. (various references) | |
Italian | straccione, pezzente (crook, tramp, trash, villain). (various references) | |
Manx | brollaghan (sloven). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | agamuffinray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | maltrapilho (rat, ratty, shabby, shake-rag, tatterdemalion, tattered, threadbare), garoto da rua (shake-rag, urchin, wastrel), farroupilha (shake-rag, tatterdemalion). (various references) | |
Romanian | zdrenţãros (ragged), uliţar, jerpelit (out at elbows, tatterdemalion, time worn), janghinos (scabbed, tatterdemalion), haimana (gutter-snipe, larrikin, loafer, Ranger, renegade, scapegrace, street arab, tramp, truant, vagabond), golan (cad, good for nothing, hooligan, ragged, rascal, ruffian, tramp, urchin, vagabond, wretch), coate-goale, calic (beggar, cadger, cripple, glutton, greedy, pauper, ragged, skinflint, tatterdemalion). (various references) | |
Russian | оборванец (ragged fellow, shake-rag, tatterdemalion). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | odrpanac (ragged fellow). (various references) | |
Spanish | granuja (berry, cad, guttersnipe, loose grapes, rascal), galopín (mudlark, rascal, tyke). (various references) | |
Swedish | rännstensunge, trashank, slashas, busfrö (imp). (various references) | |
Thai | เ"็กที่ใส่เสื้อผ้าขา"วิ่นและสกปรก (คำเก่า). (various references) | |
Turkish | pasaklı tip (slob), paçavralar içindeki kimse, baldırı çıplak (bare-legged, rowdy). (various references) | |
Ukranian | обідранець (scarecrow), злидарський (needy), безпритульний (homeless, houseless, outcast, ownerless, shelterless, waif). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | kẻ sống đầu đường xó chợ, đứa bé đầu đường xó chợ người ăn mặc rách rưới nhếch nhác. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Middle English | 1100-1500 | raggi. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ragamuffin": ragamuffins. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "ragamuffin" (pronounced 'Rag`a*muf"fin'): Beaufin, Biffin, Blackfin, Bluefin, Buffin, Encoffin, Muffin, Redfin, Ruffin, threadfin, tiffin. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-f-f-g-i-m-n-r-u" | |
-3 letters: farming, framing, funfair, guarani, muffing, ruffian, ruffing. | |
-4 letters: affair, affirm, airman, anuria, arming, faming, farina, faring, firman, fuming, granum, iguana, maffia, magian, margin, marina, muffin, muring, raffia, ragman, rumina, unfair, urania. | |
-5 letters: again, agria, amain, amiga, amnia, anima, fagin, fanga, fanum, fauna, fungi, furan, gamin, garni, grain, grama, grana, griff, gruff, inarm, infra, mafia, mania, maria, naira, ruana, ruing, unarm, unrig. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-f-f-g-i-m-n-r-u" | |
+1 letter: ragamuffins. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 61 67 61 6D 75 66 66 69 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. .- --. .- -- ..- ..-. ..-. .. -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100001 01100111 01100001 01101101 01110101 01100110 01100110 01101001 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R a g a m u f f i n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0061 0067 0061 006D 0075 0066 0066 0069 006E |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)52677367798772727580 |
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