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gamin
[ gam-in ]
noun
- a neglected boy left to run about the streets; street urchin.
gamin
/ ˈɡæmɪn; ɡamɛ̃ /
noun
- a street urchin; waif
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Word History and Origins
Origin of gamin1
From French, dating back to 1830–40, originally boy assisting a glassblower, young boy; of uncertain origin
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Word History and Origins
Origin of gamin1
from French
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Example Sentences
Now began what she called her literary school-boy life (vie d'ecolier litteraire), her vie de gamin.
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Little cared for by his father, he was brought up by his grandfather, a tailor, who let him roam the streets as a gamin.
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Master and dog were hustled outside the gate and into a rabble of jeering slum gamin.
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"Neither Georges nor the Dragon are honest souls enough to trust themselves with their cups," said the knowing gamin.
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She has been scolding me, though if it comes to that I gave it her back with far more gamin in my tongue.
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