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ragamuffin
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noun
  1. A dirty, shabby, shabbily-clothed child; an urchin.
  2. (According to wikipedia:Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable): A muffin is a poor thing of a creature, a 'regular muff'; so that a ragamuffin is a sorry creature in rags.
Etymology: From the w:Middle English language, Middle English Ragamuffyn.

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