Brewer's: Ragamuffin

(French, maroufle). A muff or muffin is a poor thing of a creature, a “regular muff;” so that a ragamuffin is a sorry creature in rags.

“I have led my ragamuffins where they are peppered.” —Shakespeare: 1 Henry IV., v. 3.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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