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 →

2) A ragamuffin can also be a rude name for a shabby, poor person. tree →

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 →
• Look at that ragamuffin in torn clothes. tree →
• «You ragamuffin!» said the giant. tree →

note

nothing for maths

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «ragamuffin» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.