| 单词 | ragamuffin |
| 释义 | Related topics: Childrenrag·a·muf·fin /ˈræɡəˌmʌfɪn/ noun [countable] literarySSCDC a dirty young child wearing torn clothes 衣衫褴褛的脏孩子Examples from the Corpusragamuffin• A ragamuffin was walking up and down the rows of benches begging from anyone who was awake.• A few well-dressed Yanks are to be sprinkled among 600 soldiers and ragamuffins.• Fancy, gentlemen in velvet scrapping like ragamuffins!• Last night his hourly wage, about £8 in loose change was nicked from under his nose by scavenging ragamuffins.• And the ragamuffin kids: unwashed kids, hungry kids, artful kids, verminous kids, nice kids and unholy terrors.• It's only the ragamuffins chasing Caesar down the Fosse Way.Origin ragamuffin (1300-1400) Ragamoffyn, evil spirit in the 14th-century poem Piers Plowman by William Langlandrag·a·muf·fin nounChineseSyllable torn a young clothes wearing dirty child Corpus |
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