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Topic: CHILDREN

Date: 1300-1400
Origin: Ragamoffyn, evil spirit in the 14th-century poem Piers Plowman by William Langland

ragamuffin

 noun
     
rag‧a‧muf‧fin [countable]
literarySSCDC a dirty young child wearing torn clothes
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