'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]

Definition of 'Tatterdemalion'

From: GCIDE
  • 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]