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gamins

gamins is the plural of gamin.

Meaning of gamin

Noun

gamin (plural gamins)

  1. (also, attributive, dated) A homeless boy; a male street urchin; also (more generally), a cheeky, street-smart boy.
    • Dearest Eloise,— There is one little and perhaps insignificant French cake, which I feel certain would soon become a favourite in the cottage, more particularly amongst its juvenile inhabitants. It is the famed galette, the melodramatic food of the gamins, galopins, mechanics, and semi-artists of...1854, Alexis [Benoît] Soyer, A Shilling Cookery for the People: Embracing an Entirely New System of Plain Cookery and Domestic Economy, London; New York, N.Y.: George Routledge & Co., →OCLC, page 125
    Antonyms:
    gamine

Questions about gamins

What is gamins the plural of?
Gamins is the plural of gamin.

Words near gamins in the dictionary

  1. gaming the system
  2. gamings
  3. gaminish
  4. Gamino
  5. Gaminos
  6. gamins
  7. gamist
  8. Gamit
  9. gamithromycin
  10. gamjatang
  11. Gamlingay

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