Found 2 items, similar to tatterdemalion.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: tatterdemalion
tatterdemalion
adj 1: worn to shreds; or wearing torn or ragged clothing;
“a man
in a tattered shirt”;
“the tattered flag”;
“tied up in
tattered brown paper”;
“a tattered barefoot boy”;
“a
tatterdemalion prince” [syn:
tattered]
2: in deplorable condition;
“a street of bedraggled tenements”;
“a broken-down fence”;
“a ramshackle old pier”;
“a
tumble-down shack” [syn:
bedraggled,
broken-down,
dilapidated,
ramshackle,
tumble-down,
unsound]
n : a dirty shabbily clothed urchin [syn:
ragamuffin]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Tatterdemalion
Tatterdemalion
\Tat`ter*de*mal"ion\, n. [Tatter + OF.
desmaillier to break the meshes of, to tear: cf. OF. maillon
long clothes, swadding clothes, F. maillot. See
Tatter, and
Mail armor.]
A ragged fellow; a ragamuffin. --L'Estrange.
[1913 Webster]