英语词汇ragamuffin的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	ragamuffin
词源	ragamuffin. Until recently ragamuffin for a shabby, dirty child was thought to derive from the name of a demon in the 14th-century allegorical poem Piers Plowman. Recent research, however, has found that the word was used as a real person’s last name before this and probably derives ultimately from the Middle English raggi, ragged, and the Middle Dutch muffe, mitten.
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