gamin

Synonyms for gamin

noun person who is poor, tattered

noun. mischievous child, small person

noun. person who is poor, tattered

noun. mischievious youngster

noun. mischievious youngster

"street urchin," 1837, from French gamin (18c.), perhaps from Berrichon dialect gamer "to steal." Introduced in English in translations of Hugo.

She flashed him a gamin grin and they went on into the control room.

A group of youths who were standing near shouted "Well said, gamin."

The morrow when we shall need every man—nay, every gamin—will dawn soon.

I was as hot as fire, and some of the gamin's blood was still on my hand.

Why not, if you are all republicans, and see no more in a prince than in a gamin?

The Parisian, gamin or marquis, will have no bad music or acting.

I ought not to have kept it to look at like a gamin with his marbles.

All the gamin's impudence melts at a touch of true kindness.

Jadiver inspected it thoroughly, the gamin standing impatiently at his side.

But the gamin was petticoated and the burlesque scenes set in a comedy.