gamin
a neglected boy left to run about the streets; street urchin.
Origin of gamin
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How to use gamin in a sentence
"And fooled you," added Leon, making the gesture of gamins to express the action of picking pockets.
Unconscious Comedians | Honore de BalzacTailed by scuffling gamins, the strange little procession moved quickly down the wynd and turned into the roaring Cowgate.
Greyfriars Bobby | Eleanor AtkinsonBut there was little severity in the sentence accorded to the white-faced youth who came just before the three gamins.
The Incendiary | W. A. (William Augustine) LeahyHe was well known in the neighbourhood where he resided, and the street gamins cried Jack Ketch as he went along the street.
The Chronicles of Newgate, v. 2/2 | Arthur GriffithsHe used the catch-words of the street gamins of New York without any consciousness of incongruity.
The Foolish Virgin | Thomas Dixon
British Dictionary definitions for gamin
/ (ˈɡæmɪn, French ɡamɛ̃) /
a street urchin; waif
Origin of gamin
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