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gamin|gamæ̃|
[a. F. gamin.]
A neglected boy, left to run about the streets; a street Arab.
1840Thackeray Paris Sk.-bk. (1872) 6 There are the little gamins mocking him. 1864F. W. Robinson Mattie, a Stray x, One Kent Street gamin out of business and dodging the policeman behind a Patent Safety. 1873C. M. Yonge Pillars of House I. vi. (1880) 134 ‘Our little gamin has the most of the Good Samaritan in him’, said Mr. Audley.
Add: Also attrib. or quasi-adj., gaminesque.
1915D. H. Lawrence Phoenix II (1968) 399 The gamin exultance: ‘Yah! I got myself out all right!’ 1927H. V. Morton In Search of England vi. 129 You wrestle with a gamin desire to turn round in the direction of the tower and put out your tongue. 1973Houston Post 14 Oct. (Spotlight Suppl.) 2/1 Paper Moon—Peter Bogdanovich's tale of a '30s con man and his gamin sidekick. 1984K. Hulme Bone People (1985) vii. 283 A sparrow of a woman, but without a sparrow's gamin cheerfulness. |