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.