gamin
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From French gamin (“street urchin, kid”); an "eastern dialect" word of unknown origin.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
gamin (plural gamins)
- A street urchin; a homeless boy.
- 1854, Alexis [Benoît] Soyer, A Shilling Cookery for the People: Embracing an Entirely New System of Plain Cookery and Domestic Economy[1], London, New York, N.Y.: George Routledge & Co., OCLC 76167054, page 125:
- Dearest Eloise,— There is one little and perhaps insignificant French cake, which I feel certain would soon become a favourite in the cottage, more particularly amongst its juvenile inhabitants. It is the famed galette, the melodramatic food of the gamins, galopins, mechanics, and semi-artists of France.
Translations[edit]
a street urchin; a homeless boy
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Anagrams[edit]
French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
gamin m (plural gamins, feminine gamine)
- (dated) street urchin, street kid
- (colloquial) kid (a child, especially one who is mischievous or plays in the streets)
Adjective[edit]
gamin (feminine singular gamine, masculine plural gamins, feminine plural gamines)
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “gamin” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Limburgish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
gamin m
- (Maastrichtian) rascal boy, an imp particularly inclined to mischief
Synonyms[edit]
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