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gamine

noun

Etymology

Borrowed from French gamine.

  1. borrowed from gamine

Definitions

  1. A (usually female) street urchin

    A (usually female) street urchin; a homeless girl.

  2. A mischievous, playful, elfish, pert girl or young woman.

  3. Having a boyish, mischievous charm

    Having a boyish, mischievous charm; elfish, typically with short hair.

    • In her navy linen trousers and her, perhaps too tight, white jersey, Jennifer was determinedly gamine.
    • It’s a wildly dated-looking and derivative film, a quaint adventure in fantasised naughtiness, like Ozon’s teen prostitute fantasy Jeune et Jolie in 2013, which starred his lead actress here, Marine Vacth, in a similarly gamine role.

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Derived

gaminish

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for gamine. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA