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gamin::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | street arab, throwaway |
| Type of | guttersnipe, street urchin |
Examples of gamin
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In her chic white Oxford bags and gamin haircut, Rainer looks ravishing.
From the telegraph.co.uk
A kooky gamin changes a selfish ad man's outlook on life.
From the post-gazette.com
Sagnier, her gamin beauty concealing a steely core, gives a dynamic performance as the woman caught in the middle.
From the sltrib.com
Petra Kelly, 35, the feisty, fiery gamin who speaks as the uncrowned leader of the Greens, is hard to overlook.
From the time.com
See new Pro gamin task force page.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Curiously, Tautou was outfitted in Lanvin, not Chanel, but looked perfectly gamin and gorgeous in the simple cocktail dress and cropped haircut.
From the latimes.com
She is a wistful waif out of a Chaplin two-reeler, a Broadway gamin skipping along the harsh pavements of defeat with perky gallantry, one of nature's eternally winning losers.
From the time.com
- Street arab: (sometimes offensive) a homeless boy who has been abandoned and roams the streets
- In Linux computer systems, Gamin is a monitoring system for files and directories that independently implements a subset of FAM, the File Alteration Monitor. Running as a service, it allows for the detection of modifications to a file or directory. gam_server functions as a daemon for Gamin.
- [Fr.] A street child, as epitomized by Gavroche. The feminine form is "gamine".
- N.m/f. child, kid; little boy/girl
