definition of ragamuffin
Definition of ragamuffin in the English dictionary. The definition of ragamuffin in the dictionary is  a ragged unkempt person, esp a child.
The Strange History of 'Ragamuffin' The word is linked to both Thanksgiving and Halloween The word ragamuffin can describe a ragged person, a type of music (also known as raggamuffin or ragga), and a demon in the 14th-century poem Piers Plowman. But this versatile word has another meaning: beginning in the 19th century, it described participants in the American tradition of Thanksgiving masking or ragamuffin parades.