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# ragamuffin

«ragamuffin» in Mova's school dictionary: **a dirty child in ragged, worn-out clothes** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (ragamuffins in the plural)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A ragamuffin is a dirty child in ragged, worn-out clothes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ragamuffin/#m1)

2) A ragamuffin can also be a rude name for a shabby, poor person. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ragamuffin/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in stories, a poor, shabby person, or an insult used by a giant to a tailor

### examples

- The ragamuffin ran off with the apple. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ragamuffin/#x1)
- Look at that ragamuffin in torn clothes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ragamuffin/#x2)
- «You ragamuffin!» said the giant. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ragamuffin/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «ragamuffin» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ragamuffin/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.