A dirty, shabbily-clothed child; an urchin.
I haue led my rag of Muffins where they are pepper'd: there's not three of my 150 left aliue; and they for the Townes end, to beg during life.
A hooligan or troublemaker.
A domestic cat of a particular heavy, muscular, short-necked breed.
From the Middle English Ragamuffyn. Of uncertain origin, according to Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: A muffin is a poor thing of a creature, a ‘regular muff’; so that a ragamuffin is a sorry...
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