gamin

English

Etymology

From French gamin.

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)

• Latin: cicaro m
• Russian: беспризо́рник (ru) m (besprizórnik)

See also

• gamine

Anagrams

• gmina, magni-

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡamɛ̃/

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Noun

gamin m (plural gamins, feminine gamine)

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

Further reading

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

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Limburgish

Etymology

Borrowing from French gamin.

Noun

gamin m

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

Synonyms

• batteraof