gamin

English

Etymology

From French gamin (“street urchin, kid”); an "eastern dialect" word of unknown origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡæmɪn/
• Rhymes: -æmɪn

Noun

gamin (plural gamins)

1. 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

a street urchin; a homeless boy

• Bulgarian: гамен (bg) m (gamen)
• Greek: χαμίνι (el) n (chamíni)
• Ido: stradobubo, bubo (io)

• Italian: derelitto (it) m, senzatetto (it) m, vagabondo (it) m, disadattato (it) m
• Latin: cicaro m
• Russian: беспризо́рник (ru) m (besprizórnik)

See also

• gamine

Anagrams

• Magin, gmina, magni-

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡa.mɛ̃/

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Noun

gamin m (plural gamins, feminine gamine)

1. (dated) street urchin, street kid
2. (colloquial) kid (a child, especially one who is mischievous or plays in the streets)

Adjective

gamin (feminine singular gamine, masculine plural gamins, feminine plural gamines)

1. mischievous, naughty

Derived terms

• gaminement
• gaminerie

Further reading

• “gamin” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Limburgish

Etymology

Borrowed from French gamin.

Noun

gamin m

1. (Maastrichtian) rascal boy, an imp particularly inclined to mischief

Synonyms

• batteraof