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ragamuffin

[rag-uh-muhf-in] / ˈræg əˌmʌf ɪn /


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How did Great Britain, possessing both an empire on which the sun never set and the greatest navy the world had ever seen, lose to ragamuffin American rebels?

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 26, 2026

To some, he was a rollicking drifter in ragamuffin punk tatters.

From BBC Dec. 2, 2023

It was the late 1970s, punk was sliding into new wave, and Leonard and her friends, including the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, were, by Leonard’s account, “wild little ragamuffin children.”

From New York Times Oct. 11, 2022

Now, decades later, Miller Berg has the reins to showcase a similar aesthetic across a broader range of sports, seeking out what she calls “rough-around-the-edges, ragamuffin, cool women.”

From Seattle Times May 6, 2022

Occasionally some ragamuffin troupe would mum a play on a street corner or I’d hear a fiddler in a pub.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss




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