English

Noun

gamin ‎(plural gamins)

1. A street urchin; a homeless boy.
   • 1854, Alexis [Benoît] Soyer, A Shilling Cookery for the People: Embracing an Entirely New System of Plain Cookery and Domestic Economy, London, New York, N.Y.: George Routledge & Co., OCLC 76167054, page 125:

     Dearest Eloise,— There is one little and perhaps insignificant French cake, which I feel certain would soon become a favourite in the cottage, more particularly amongst its juvenile inhabitants. It is the famed galette, the melodramatic food of the gamins, galopins, mechanics, and semi-artists of France.

Translations

See also

• gamine

Anagrams

• gmina

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡamɛ̃/

Noun

gamin m ‎(plural gamins, feminine gamine)

1. (dated) street urchin, street kid
2. kid (a child, especially one who is mischievous or plays in the streets)

Limburgish

Etymology

From French gamin.

Noun

gamin m

1. (Maastrichtian) rascal boy, an imp particularly inclined to mischief

Synonyms

• batteraof