Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An often homeless boy who roams about the streets; an urchin.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A neglected and precociously knowing street-boy; an unruly boy running about at his own will. Also called
street Arab .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A neglected and untrained city boy; a young street Arab.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
street urchin ; ahomeless boy .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (sometimes offensive) a homeless boy who has been abandoned and roams the streets
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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She called the gamin: he was a shrewd monkey-faced fellow, with an insolent crafty eye.
The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 Various
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i think gamin is only gonna be a benefit if u play these games which are made for school or kids, when u start playin games for 18+ like gta, thats when there are negative effects realityintern
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Computer games ‘do have benefits’ 2005
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The gamin is a grace to the nation, and at the same time a disease; a disease which must be cured, how?
Les Miserables 2008
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This word gamin was printed for the first time, and reached popular speech through the literary tongue, in 1834.
Les Miserables 2008
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To sum up the whole, and in one word, the gamin is a being who amuses himself, because he is unhappy.
Les Miserables 2008
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This word gamin was printed for the first time, and reached popular speech through the literary tongue, in 1834.
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To sum up the whole, and in one word, the gamin is a being who amuses himself, because he is unhappy.
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The gamin is a grace to the nation, and at the same time a disease; a disease which must be cured, how?
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To sum up the whole, and in one word, the gamin is a being who amuses himself, because he is unhappy.
Les Misérables Victor Hugo 1843
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This word gamin was printed for the first time, and reached popular speech through the literary tongue, in 1834.
Les Misérables Victor Hugo 1843
yarb commented on the word gamin
His second man teacher was Mr Athens Olympus - by his changeful face a gamin hieratic type or a late Greek deity of Marseilles...
- Louis Zukofsky, Little
June 20, 2008
johnmperry commented on the word gamin
feminine is gamine.
June 20, 2008
qms commented on the word gamin
To trade the wretched rags of famine
For the splendid livery of mammon,
They practice their smiles
And ingratiating wiles,
So grow adept in ways of the gamin.
February 26, 2014