Meaning & use
Raggamuffin
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A scruffily dressed, often dirty person, especially a child; a variant spelling of 'ragamuffin.'
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The raggamuffin children played barefoot in the alley all afternoon.
He joked that he looked like a raggamuffin after camping for a week.
A note on using this word
This spelling also became linked to 'ragga,' a style of Jamaican dancehall music associated with street culture.
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