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Tatterdemalion   Listen
noun
Tatterdemalion  n.  A ragged fellow; a ragamuffin.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Tatterdemalion" Quotes from Famous Books



... poor Israel decamped, and made for another friend. But here a monstrous bull-dog, indignant that the peace of a quiet family should be disturbed by so outrageous a tatterdemalion, flew at Israel's unfortunate coat, whose rotten skirts the brute tore completely off, leaving the coat razeed to a spencer, which barely came down to the wearer's waist. In attempting to drive the monster away, Israel's hat fell off, upon which ...
— Israel Potter • Herman Melville

... Curse go with you— Is all our Project fallen to this? to love the only Enemy to our Trade? Nay, to love such a Shameroon, a very Beggar; nay, a Pirate-Beggar, whose Business is to rifle and be gone, a No-Purchase, No-Pay Tatterdemalion, an English Piccaroon; a Rogue that fights for daily Drink, and takes a Pride in being loyally lousy— Oh, I could curse now, if I durst— This is the Fate of ...
— The Works of Aphra Behn, Vol. I (of 6) • Aphra Behn

... book; some relation to a blue-book, something about sewerage, or health of towns, or public improvements, over which said book our friend here goes into enthusiasms. I am sure if it could be reduced to the size of that tatterdemalion Horace that he carries about, the poor little ...
— Friends in Council (First Series) • Sir Arthur Helps

... frippery the villain; I'll reduce him to frippery and rags, a tatterdemalion!—I hope to see him hung with tatters, like a Long Lane pent-house, or a gibbet thief. A slander-mouthed railer! I warrant the spendthrift prodigal's in debt as much as the million lottery, or the whole court upon a birthday. I'll spoil ...
— The Way of the World • William Congreve



Words linked to "Tatterdemalion" :   tumble-down, ramshackle, urchin, broken-down, derelict



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