Vocabulary Word
Word: ragamuffin
Definition: dirty child in torn clothes; person wearing tattered clothes
Definition: dirty child in torn clothes; person wearing tattered clothes
Sentences Containing 'ragamuffin'
The devil fetch ye, ye ragamuffin rapscallions; ye are all asleep.
The term "raggamuffin" is an intentional misspelling of "ragamuffin", a word that entered the Jamaican Patois lexicon after the British Empire colonized Jamaica in the 17th century.
In 1987, Daddy Freddy and Asher D's "Ragamuffin Hip-Hop" became the first multinational single to feature the word "ragga" in its title.