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Meanings of gamin in English

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nyèbit

(Sometimes offensive) a homeless boy who has been abandoned and roams the streets.

        nyèbit
        Usage of gamin in English
        1
        So little stands between a gamin and all the dignities of Nature.
        The Colour of Life
        2
        He stood for a moment eyeing the gamin, who pretended to snivel.
        The King in Yellow
        3
        The gamin is born a tiler as he is born a mariner.
        Les Misérables
        4
        The English sparrow is a street gamin, our bird a timid rustic.
        Locusts and Wild Honey
        5
        Gavroche felt his gamin's heart moved with compassion for the old man.
        Les Misérables
        6
        Within five minutes thereafter, a ragged gamin strutted into the Albion bar.
        The President: A Novel
        7
        He played the gamin in folk-scenes and the monster in burlesques.
        Stories by Foreign Authors: German — Volume 1
        8
        Homer repeats himself eternally, granted; one may say that Voltaire plays the gamin.
        Les Misérables
        9
        A certain audacity on matters of religion sets off the gamin.
        Les Misérables
        10
        A growing gamin coarseness in her talk with a nervous, restless twitter underneath.
        A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago
        11
        He stood a moment eyeing the gamin, who pretended to snivel.
        The King in Yellow
        12
        Here, you gamin, I'll cover the watch with two hundred dollars.
        Deadwood Dick, the Prince of the Road; or, The Black Rider of th...
        13
        Horse Chasseur acting as a communist artillery man, attended by a gamin sponger.
        Paris under the Commune / The Seventy-Three Days of the Second S...
        14
        The face of his gamin child engaged in a monstrous mutation.
        Future Lovecraft
        15
        There was no truth in the assertion of the gamin.
        Tales from Bohemia
        16
        He takes great delight in imitating the lingo of the New York street gamin.
        Edison: His Life and Inventions
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