The meaning of Ragamuffin

noun

A street urchin.

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If chicago lacks the vision to see ahead, it will reap the harvest of fostering a kindergarten on t…

adjective

(of a young woman) attractively boyish.

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A picture featuring a gamine young model

noun

A young woman with a mischievous, boyish charm.

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A long-legged, short-haired gamine

adjective

Used to describe a girl or young woman who is thin, has short hair, and is attractively like a young boy in appearance

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Her newly cropped hair gives her a fashionably gamine look., a sweet-hearted gamine from the provin…

noun

A scruffy and badly behaved child who spends most of their time on the street.

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How many times do i have to respond to the ravings of guttersnipes?

noun

A person who scavenges in river mud for objects of value.

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The mudlarks and the river police are thorough, unlike some.

noun

Someone who searches the mud (= soft, wet ground) near rivers trying to find valuable or interesting objects

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There is a collection of medieval artefacts unearthed by mudlarks and and metal detectors., the ver…

noun

An object made to resemble a human figure, set up to scare birds away from a field where crops are growing.

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The purpose of the scarecrow is to scare crows away from your crop, but the crows have grown wise o…

noun

An object that looks like a person dressed in old, torn clothes and that stands in a garden or field to frighten birds away

adjective

Tattered or dilapidated.

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Al's tatterdemalion figure was washed out in a psychedelic rainbow as sam beckett leaped again.

noun

A person in tattered clothing.

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In a free society, why should anyone stand in the way of another person's transformation from tatte…

noun

A young child who is poorly or raggedly dressed.

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He was surrounded by a dozen street urchins in rags

noun

A homeless, neglected, or abandoned person, especially a child.

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She is foster mother to various waifs and strays

noun

A wasteful or good-for-nothing person.

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I have no intention of seeing my dues gambled away by your wastrel of a son

noun

A person who does nothing positive with their life, making no use of their abilities or the opportunities that are offered to them