noun, masculine/araˈpjeθo/plural: arrapiezos
ragamuffin, whippersnapper; rag
“La gente también me escudriña, ávida de acercarse, con hostil e irónica curiosidad chulesca. Todos ellos -mendigos, arrapiezos, golfería, lavanderas, obreros […]” — The people were also eying me up, keen to approach, with a hostile, ironic and cocky curiosity. All of them, beggars, ragamuffins, scoundrels, washerwomen, laborers […]
Possibly from arrapo, a variant of harapo (“rag”).