Associations to the word «Tatterdemalion»

Wiktionary

TATTERDEMALION, adjective. Tattered.
TATTERDEMALION, noun. A person with tattered clothing.

Dictionary definition

TATTERDEMALION, noun. A dirty shabbily clothed urchin.
TATTERDEMALION, adjective. 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".
TATTERDEMALION, adjective. In deplorable condition; "a street of bedraggled tenements"; "a broken-down fence"; "a ramshackle old pier"; "a tumble-down shack".

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