All ragamuffin synonyms
rag·a·muf·fin
R r noun ragamuffin
- dickens — Charles (John Huffam), pen name Boz. 1812–70, English novelist, famous for the humour and sympathy of his characterization and his criticism of social injustice. His major works include The Pickwick Papers (1837), Oliver Twist (1839), Nicholas Nickleby (1839), Old Curiosity Shop (1840–41), Martin Chuzzlewit (1844), David Copperfield (1850), Bleak House (1853), Little Dorrit (1857), and Great Expectations (1861)
- dogie — a motherless calf in a cattle herd.
- dogies — Plural form of dogie.
- orphan — a child who has lost both parents through death, or, less commonly, one parent.
- jetsam — goods cast overboard deliberately, as to lighten a vessel or improve its stability in an emergency, which sink where jettisoned or are washed ashore.
- foundling — an infant or small child found abandoned; a child without a known parent or guardian.
- waif — a person, especially a child, who has no home or friends.
- gamin — a neglected boy left to run about the streets; street urchin.