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ragamuffin


  • n  a dirty shabbily clothed urchin

  • Ten years ago, Joe Louis Barrow was a Detroit ragamuffin, toting ice for fly-by-night icemen to earn a few pennies to keep his feet in shoes.
  • A voluble, ingenuous ragamuffin who always wears the same hardly decent costume (woolen undershirt and baggy pants hitched around his lower hips with a rope), he cuts a brash but .
  • This year, she seemed to do something right when she ditched her ragamuffin husband, Kevin Federline.
News & Articles

  • Dr. Fox: Cat appears to be jealous
    Question - I am hoping you can help me understand this cat behavior: I adopted two lovely female ragamuffin cats about 2 1/2 years ago from a rescue site; they were about 8 months old. I was told they were sisters.
    June 18, 2013 - Poughkeepsie Journal
Quotes

  • Jason Segel in Los Angeles Times
    Amid the post-writers-strike flurry of new "How I Met Your Mother" episodes, promoting "Sarah," shooting a new film, and writing new scripts, Segel says, "I'm a bit of a ragamuffin. I wouldn't trust someone like me. I mean, I think I'm a good guy...
  • Craig Brewer in Calgary Sun
    For the part of the promiscuous Rae - who Brewer describes as "a little ragamuffin you'd want to dance and go home with but wouldn't want to get invested in their life story" - Ricci was the first actress who auditioned for them. "And then I...
  • Kirk Douglas in Glasgow Daily Record
    Kirk, 90, said: "I had been a ragamuffin kid, coping with a neighbourhood filled with gangs. Under her guidance, I became a different person. I am eternally grateful. By today's standards, she would have gone to jail."

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