Usually means: Untidy, disheveled person or child.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. ragamuffin: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. ragamuffin: Merriam-Webster
  3. ragamuffin: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. ragamuffin: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. ragamuffin: Collins English Dictionary
  6. ragamuffin: Vocabulary.com
  7. Ragamuffin, ragamuffin: Wordnik
  8. ragamuffin: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Ragamuffin, ragamuffin: Wiktionary
  10. ragamuffin: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. ragamuffin: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. ragamuffin: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Ragamuffin, ragamuffin: Dictionary.com
  14. ragamuffin: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Ragamuffin (cat), Ragamuffin, The Ragamuffin: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Ragamuffin: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. ragamuffin: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. ragamuffin: Rhymezone
  19. Ragamuffin: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. ragamuffin: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Ragamuffin: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. ragamuffin: FreeDictionary.org
  23. ragamuffin: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Ragamuffin: The Word Detective
  25. ragamuffin: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. ragamuffin: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
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Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ragamuffin: A Word A Day

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. ragamuffin: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. ragamuffin: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (ragamuffin)

▸ noun:  A dirty, shabbily-clothed child; an urchin.
▸ noun:  (slang) A hooligan or troublemaker.
▸ noun:  A domestic cat of a particular heavy, muscular, short-necked breed.
▸ noun:  Alternative letter-case form of Ragamuffin (“breed of domestic cat”) [A domestic cat of a particular heavy, muscular, short-necked breed.]

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tatterdemalion, ragamuffinism, raggamuffin, rajamuffin, scruffbucket, moggy, rumpie, raggabash, rag, tag and bobtail, pusscat, more...

Opposite:
dandy, well-dressed, sharp-dressed, stylish, fashionable

Phrases:
Ragamuffin cat, Ragamuffin War, more...

Adjectives:
little, young, elderly, dirty, old, poor, certain, heroic, small, penniless, casual

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Similar:
tatterdemalion, ragamuffinism, raggamuffin, rajamuffin, scruffbucket, moggy, rumpie, raggabash, rag, tag and bobtail, pusscat, more...

Opposite:
dandy, well-dressed, sharp-dressed, stylish, fashionable

Phrases:
Ragamuffin cat, Ragamuffin War, more...

Adjectives:
little, young, elderly, dirty, old, poor, certain, heroic, small, penniless, casual

Colors:
    brown,     gray,     olive,     mustard,     rust, more...



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