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    [Noun]  | "rag*a*muf*fin" | \ ˈra-gə-ˌmə-fən \


    1: a ragged often disreputable person; especially : a poorly clothed often dirty child


    Origin: 1581 ;

     Middle English Ragamuffyn, name for a ragged, oafish person;

    [Noun]  | "ragamuffins" 


    1: a child who is dressed in rags and is usually dirty and poor;


      * e.g., " ... a group of barefoot ragamuffins playing in the street "





    [Noun]  | "ragamuffin" 


    1: a child who is dressed in rags and is usually dirty and poor;


      * e.g., " ... a group of barefoot ragamuffins playing in the street "





     [ "ragamuffin" ]

    1: A grimy dirty little urchin or waif with ratted greasy hair. Usually female.

      * e.g.,  ... Lisa and Jenny look like a couple of ragamuffins today. 

     [ "ragamuffin" ]

    1: the bedraggled, beat-up, and burnt-out.

      * e.g.,  ... The deepest awareness of ourselves is that we are deeply loved by Jesus Christ and have done nothing to earn it or deserve it. God, we are Your beloved ragamuffins. 


     [ "ragamuffin" ]

    2: the bent and the bruised who feel that their lives are a grave disappointment to God.


     [ "ragamuffin" ]

    3: the sorely burdened who are still shifting the heavy suitcase from one hand to the other.


     [ "ragamuffin" ]

    4: the wobbly and weak-kneed who know they don't have it altogether and are too proud to accept the handout of God's amazing grace.


     [ "ragamuffin" ]

    5: the inconsistent, unsteady disciples whose cheese is falling off their cracker. the poor, weak, sinful men and women with hereditary faults and limited talents.


     [ "ragamuffin" ]

    6: the earthen vessels who shuffle along on feet of clay. the smart people who know they are stupid and honest disciples who admit they are scalawags.

     [ "ragamuffin" ]

    1: A breed of cat. Often with long soft fur and of very nice temperament.

      * e.g.,  ... The ragamuffin was sleeping on the mat. 

     [ "ragamuffin" ]

    1:  a style of dancehall reggae music that started in the 80s which blends a DJ half-singing and half-rapping rhythm into a hip hop flavor.

      * e.g.,  ... -"Damian Marley's new album has throbbing rhythms and a heavily-accented ragamuffin style."  


     [ "ragamuffin" ]

    2:  nickname for Steven and Damian Marley

      * e.g.,  ... -"This is ragamuffin, Junior Gong comin' next" 

     [ "ragamuffin" ]

    1:  a style of dancehall reggae music that started in the 80s which blends a DJ half-singing and half-rapping rhythm into a hip hop flavor.

      * e.g.,  ...  "Damian Marley's new album has throbbing rhythms and a heavily-accented ragamuffin style." -Rhapsody Online 


     [ "ragamuffin" ]

    2:  nickname for Steven and Damian Marley

      * e.g.,  ...  "This is ragamuffin, Junior Gong comin' next" -Damian Marley 

     [ "ragamuffin" ]

    1: Small children, usually helpless.

      * e.g.,  ... I get you yet, silly ragamuffins! 


     [ "ragamuffin" ]

    2: See: whippersnapper

     [ "Ragamuffin" ]

    1: From Roman Dirge's comic book series/flash cartoons. He originally was a vampire who would feed on humans. One night, he attacked a woman and ate her. Her sister saw this, and being a witch, turned him into a doll for eternity. It was said that one drop of blood would turn him back to being a vampire. But Lenore being dead and having embalming fluids and her blood mixed together, Ragamuffin was doomed to be a doll forever. He is good friends with Lenore.

      * e.g.,  ... Lenore and Ragamuffin are always on some adventure 

     [ "Ragamuffin" ]

    1: In the 1980s, however, particularly in West London and Brixton, the word took on a new meaning, that of a dangerous, disaffected, black teenage or young adult male. Ragamuffins or 'Raggas' prided themselves on violently attacking white males, often with knives, frequently on the grounds of fictitious claims of racism. Ragamuffins typically dressed in hooded tops, jeans and Nike or Adidas trainers, and listened to electro and early hip hop music.

      * e.g.,  ... The ragamuffin said "I chased dat chalky down de street and ragged him" 


     [ "Ragamuffin" ]

    2: Raggamuffin (with two Gs) is also a Jamaican term and has been used in Jamaica both to describe individuals and a style of music. More recently the term has entered the mainstream, meaning a particular style of dancehall music which has its roots in Jamaica (see Ms. Dynamite, Shaggy).

     [ "ragamuffin" ]

    1: a bratty child ...especially girl... very not-fitting into today's superficial materialistic and whatever society.

      * e.g.,  ... didn't go to school... don't work... no make-up, no bling bling.  

     [ "Ragamuffin" ]

    1: A cloth, towel or large group of tissues, used for the soakage of semen as a result of chronic masterbation

      * e.g.,  ... Dude johnny's room is stinking with that ragamuffin on the ground 

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