'Tatterdemalion' definitions:
Definition of 'tatterdemalion'
(from WordNet)
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" [syn: tattered, tatterdemalion]
adjective
In deplorable condition; "a street of bedraggled tenements"; "a broken-down fence"; "a ramshackle old pier"; "a tumble- down shack" [syn: bedraggled, broken-down, derelict, dilapidated, ramshackle, tatterdemalion, tumble-down]
noun
A dirty shabbily clothed urchin [syn: ragamuffin, tatterdemalion]