gaminerien.
/ɡaˈmiːnəri/, /ɡaˌmiːnəˈriː/, U.S. /ɡəˌminəˈri/, /ɡəˈminəri/ The behaviour or characteristics of a gamin or gamine. In early use also: †gamins collectively (obsolete).
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > mischievous or practical joking > [noun] > one who > behaviour or characteristics of
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1841 Daily National Intelligencer (Washington) 25 Oct. At length the émeute of the gaminerie (vagabond lads) and the attempts of the societies to gather an army of blackguards for a general battle, became an expected exhibition.
1853 Brit. Jrnl. 3 310 The cold weather has endowed them with double their usual gaminerie, for somehow little boys, it would seem, are never so impudent as in frosty weather.
1898 Fortn. Rev. May 856 Along with some mere gaminerie, there was a very serious and adequate theory of art at the back of all his [sc. Beardsley's] destructive criticism.
1930 Observer 1 June 15 Amused by the rich gaminerie of Miss H.
1960 A. Powell Casanova's Chinese Restaurant 51 Determination not to be jockeyed out of either his gaminerie or accustomed manner of ordering his own life.
2001 Times (Nexis) 5 May Her anatomy and shameless gaminerie turned BB [= Brigitte Bardot] into an icon of female sexual liberation.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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