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One who is poorly clothed and often dirty.

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Usage examples (11)
  • In the course of his remarks, he applied the term "raggamuffins" to the soldiery in general.
  • But this expostulation served only to irritate the raggamuffins; and one of them taking hold of my arm tried to force me into compliance with his orders.
  • Yet this people, he added, veriest raggamuffins that they are, despise the negroes, and consider it quite degrading to put themselves on term of equity with them.
  • She learns from the worlds greatest Theologians and plays with the young raggamuffins in the streets.
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