Crossword-Solution: RAGAMUFFIN
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Ragamuffin | n. | A paltry or disreputable fellow; a mean wretch. |
| Ragamuffin | n. | A person who wears ragged clothing. |
| Ragamuffin | n. | The long-tailed titmouse. |
We have 13 clues for the answer “RAGAMUFFIN”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Cat breed with a shabby-sounding name | 1 answer |
| Child in tattered clothes | 1 answer |
| Makin' mistakes on the sitar? | 1 answer |
| Tattered tot with quick bread? | 1 answer |
| Untreated, he's tricky | 1 answer |
| Tatterdemalion | 2 answers |
| Street child | 4 answers |
| Oliver Twist, e.g. | 6 answers |
| Halloween figure | 7 answers |
| Street ___: urchin | 8 answers |
| SCARECROW | 12 answers |
| Waif | 17 answers |
| urchin | 26 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with RAGAMUFFIN (5)
After some time my party, as I had expected, came up, and when poor Dthemetri saw me on my sheepskin, “the life and soul” of this ragamuffin party, he was so astounded, that he even failed to check his cry of horror; he plainly thought that now, at last, the Lord had delivered me (interpreter and all) into the hands of the lowest Philistines.
Another well-remembered, though strangely altered, face was that of Lawyer Giles, as people still called him in courtesy; an elderly ragamuffin, in his soiled shirtsleeves and tow-cloth trousers.
But her faith in the good spot which exists in the heart of the naughtiest, sauciest, most tantalizing little ragamuffin gave her patience, skill, and in time success, for no mortal boy could hold out long with Father Bhaer shining on him as benevolently as the sun, and Mother Bhaer forgiving him seventy times seven.
But he was now not only penniless, his clothes had begun to fall in tatters; he had begun to have the look of a street Arab; and captains will have nothing to say to a ragamuffin; for in that trade, as in all others, it is the coat that depicts the man.
Presently, he lifted it out of the box, and carrying it round among the kneelers, set its face against the forehead of every one, and tendered its clumsy foot to them to kiss—a ceremony which they all performed down to a dirty little ragamuffin of a boy who had walked in from the street.
Quotes with RAGAMUFFIN (3)
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
The beauty of the ragamuffin gospel lies in the insight it offers into Jesus: the essential tenderness of His heart, His way of looking at the world, His mode of relating to you and me. 'If you really want to understand a man, don't just listen to what he says, but watch what he does.
Suffering, failure, loneliness, sorrow, discouragement, and death will be part of your journey, but the Kingdom of God will conquer all these horrors. No evil can resist grace forever. If you reject the ragamuffin gospel and turn your back on Christianity, do so because you find the answers of Jesus incredible, blasphemous, or hopelessly hopeful.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT.
Used 14 times in crossword archives (1970–2022).