Tatterdemalion
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Why "Tatterdemalion"?
By default, I'd have called myself "Ant", as that's my name. But I'd noticed that there was another Ant online the other day, so... I'm not a person dressed in ragged clothes, but I'd always had in mind a pair of fantasy heroes, along the lines of Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser, called Tatterdemalion (male) and Ragamuffin (female). And as I'm not female...
I first came across the word in the lyrics to Freddie Mercury's "The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke" from Queen II (Queen's imaginatively titled second album):
Tatterdemalion and a junketer
There's a thief and a dragonfly trumpeter - he's my hero, aah.
(Lyrics from QUEEN - The Complete Words.)
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