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Gamin

noun
1.
(sometimes offensive) a homeless boy who has been abandoned and roams the streets.  Synonyms: street arab, throwaway.





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"Gamin" Quotes from Famous Books



... in the bottom of the tonneau. The bag he stowed carefully under the cushions of the rear seat. The moment he placed his hand on the wheel of the machine, he was at his best. Every trace of the street gamin fell from him. Again he was the eagle-eyed master of time and space. The machine answered his touch with more than human obedience. He knew how to humor its mood. He conserved its power for a hill with unerring accuracy and threw it over the grades with rarely a pause to ...
— The Foolish Virgin • Thomas Dixon


Words linked to "Gamin" :   derogation, disparagement, depreciation, street urchin, guttersnipe


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