ragamuffin

Meanings

1. A dirty, shabbily-clothed child; an urchin.
2. A hooligan or troublemaker.
3. Alternative letter-case form of Ragamuffin (“breed of domestic cat”).

1. A domestic cat of a particular heavy, muscular, short-necked breed.

Etymology

From the Middle English Ragamuffyn. Of uncertain origin, according to Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: A muffin is a poor thing of a creature, a ‘regular muff’; so that a ragamuffin is a sorry creature in rags.