Gamin

Definition: Gamin

Gamin

Noun

1. A homeless child who has been abandoned and roams the streets.

Date "gamin" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references)

Etymology: Gamin \Gam"in\, noun. [French expression]. (Websters 1913)

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
GAMIN	English	Graphite Applied to Measurement of Integrated Neutrons	N/A
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Gamin

Synonyms: street arab (n), throwaway (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Commonalty	Peasant, countryman, boor, carle, churl; villain, villein; terrae filius; serf, kern, tyke, tike, chuff, ryot, fellah; longshoreman; swain, clown, hind; clod, clodhopper; hobnail, yokel, bog-trotter, bumpkin; plowman, plowboy; rustic, hayseed, lunkhead, chaw-bacon, tiller of the soil; hewers of wood and drawers of water, groundling; gaffer, loon, put, cub, Tony Lumpkin, looby, rube, lout, underling; gamin; rough; pot-wallopper, slubberdegullion; vulgar fellow, low fellow; cad, curmudgeon.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Gamin

Non-English Usage: "Gamin" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

French (boy, brat, child, Gamin, guy, jack, kid, kiddy, lad, laddie, naughty boy, pickle, shaver, small boy, tad, urchin).

Domain	Usage
Lyrics	Let the AC breeze, explain to my dames how the gamin be ("Firm All Stars"; performing artist: The Firm)
Movie/TV Titles	Gamin de Paris (1954) Le Gamin de Paris (1932) Un gamin de Bruxelles (1925) Le Gamin de Paris (1923)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	A Propos D'UN Gamin (reference) En ce temps-l�-- un gamin d�Eppe-Sauvage (reference) Fragments de poétique : P. Verlaine (Pantomine, Pierrot et Pierrot Gamin) (reference) Journal de bord du gamin des ténèbres (reference) Vaicances ai Yocotai : un gamin creusotin en vacances en Morvan, 1934-1936 (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Gamin (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	The (r)gamin style of life is a shade of the Gallic mind.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Gamin" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Gamin" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	66.67%	2	245,945
Noun (singular)	33.33%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	3	N/A

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "gamin"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		Vocërrak, Djalë Rrugësh (dead end kid, guttersnipe, mudlark, ragamuffin). (various references)

Arabic		‏صبي (boy, guy, lad, sapling, shaver, son, tad). (various references)

Bulgarian		�"амен. (various references)

French		Gamin. (various references)

Greek		χαμίνι (guttersnipe, hooligan, steet arab), Αγυιόπαισ, Αλήτησ. (various references)

Hebrew		ֹל�" ׂזוב, ובב. (various references)

Hungarian		Utcagyerek (city arab, gutter-child, gutter-snipe, ragamuffin, street arab, street urchin). (various references)

Pig Latin		amingay.(various references)

Russian		Уличный Мальчишка, Беспризорник. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		spadalo. (various references)

Spanish		Golfillo (guttersnipe, monkey, street arab, street urchin), Gamín, Pilluelo (guttersnipe, urchin). (various references)

Swedish		Gamäng. (various references)

Thai		เ�"็กเร่ร่อน. (various references)

Turkish		Sokak Çocuğu, Haşarı Çocuk. (various references)

Ukranian		�"амен, Безпритульний Хлопчина. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "gamin": gamine, gamines, gaminess, gaminesses, gaming, gamings, gamins. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Gamin" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: amin, damin, Egami, gaanin, Gadmen, gaian, gaim, gaiman, Gainmh, Gajik, gakin, galin, gaman, gamen, gamene, gami, gamina, gamir, gamit, gamlin, Gamman, gammen, gammil, gammin, gammit, gamo, gamon, ganen, ganic, gapin, garin, garmain, gatin, gavin, gazin, gemii, Gemmil, genin, Ghanim, Gimeno, Gimi, gimic, gimik, Gimona, gmi, Gohin, Gomia, Gonim, Guambino, Guami, Guaymi, gumi, Gyamfi, jamin, jamun, Ngami, ramin. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "gamin" (pronounced 'Gam"in'): Bavin, BRUIN, Cavin, Cholophaein, Cicutoxin, Colin, Covin, Cumin, Fortin, fraxin, Glairin, Haemaphaein, haematoidin, Hemaphaein, Hematein, hematoidin, Invertin, Lardacein, Levin, Linoxin, Mydatoxin, Myeloidin, Neo-Latin, Oleoresin, Papain, Phthalin, Picrotoxin, Platin, Plevin, Pyin, resin, robin, Rugin, satin, Scheelin, serin, Sewin, Smutchin, spavin, Tapayaxin, Teguexin, Telerythin, Tokin, Tophin, Typhotoxin, Urechitoxin, Venin, Vincetoxin, Whiskin, Xyloidin, Zein. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-g-i-m-n"
	-1 letter: agin, amin, gain, magi, main, mina.
	-2 letters: aim, ain, ami, ani, gam, gan, gin, mag, man, mig, nag, nam, nim.
	-3 letters: ag, ai, am, an, in, ma, mi, na.
	Words containing the letters "a-g-i-m-n"
	+1 letter: aiming, arming, enigma, faming, gamine, gaming, gamins, laming, lingam, macing, magian, making, malign, margin, mating, mawing, maying, mazing, naming, taming.
	+2 letters: amazing, ambling, amusing, angioma, armings, bamming, beaming, blaming, calming, camping, coaming, damming, damning, damping, enigmas, farming, flaming, foaming, framing, gamines, gamings, gamming, gauming, geminal, germina, gingham, gripman, hamming, harming, imagine, imaging, jambing, jamming, lambing, lamming, lamping, lingams, loaming, madding, magians, magnify, mailing, maiming, makings, maligns, malling, malting, mangier, mangily, manning, mapping, margins, marking, marling, marring, marting, mashing, masking, massing, masting, matings, matting, mauling, mayings, meaning, migrant, mintage, moaning, moating, palming, ramming, ramping, reaming, roaming, seaming, shaming, siamang, tamping, teaming, tegmina, vamping, warming, wingman.
	+3 letters: adeeming, admiring, admixing, agminate, agnomina, agrimony, alarming, amassing, amending, amercing, amidogen, angiomas, antismog, armoring, assuming, benaming, breaming, cameoing, campaign, campings, caroming, champing, charming, claiming, clamming, clamping, coamings, comaking, cramming, cramping, creaming, damaging, dampings, defaming, dramming, dreaming, egomania, emailing, embaying, emigrant, empaling, enigmata, farmings, flamingo, flamming, framings, fumigant, gambling, gaminess, geminate, geranium, germanic, germinal, giantism, ginghams, gleaming, gloaming, gnomical, gymnasia, homaging, ignorami, imaginal, imagined, imaginer, imagines, imagings, impaling, inarming, liegeman, ligament, mackling, maculing, magazine, magician, magnesia, magnesic, magnetic, magnific, magnolia, mailings, majoring, maligned, maligner, malignly, malinger, mamboing, managing, manganic, mangiest, mangling, mantling, manuring, mappings, marbling, marching, margarin, marginal, margined, markings, marlings, marrying, maskings, masoning, matching, mattings, maturing, meanings, medaling, menacing, metaling, miaouing, miaowing, miauling, midrange, migraine, migrants, mintages, misagent, misalign, misbegan, mridanga, mulligan, mutating, nonimage, organism, origanum, paganism, pomading, psalming, rambling, rearming, remaking, remating, renaming, rumbaing, sambaing, sampling, scamming, scamping, shamming, siamangs, slamming, smacking, smarting, smashing, smearing, spamming, stamping, steaming, swamping, swarming, swingman, syngamic, tegminal, tegumina, tramming, tramping, umangite, unarming, unmaking, vamosing, veganism, wambling, weighman, whamming, womaning.
	+4 letters: admitting, affirming, agronomic, alaruming, alignment, amazingly, ambushing, amidogens, amounting, amusingly, amygdalin, angiogram, angiomata, anglicism, animating, anisogamy, antheming, armouring, atomising, atomizing, balsaming, becalming, bedamning, bemeaning, bemoaning, beshaming, bigeminal, brambling, bromating, cairngorm, cambering, campaigns, campusing, carroming, centigram, chammying, champaign, clamoring, climaxing, cognomina, combating, comparing, contagium, cremating, damasking, damningly, dampening, decamping, defoaming, demanding, demarking, demasting, demeaning, diademing, disarming, dismaying, egomaniac, egomanias, emanating, embalming, embanking, embarking, embarring, emblazing, embracing, emigrants, emplacing, emplaning, emulating, enameling, enamoring, encamping, enflaming, enframing, enigmatic, examining, exampling, famishing, fathoming, flambeing, flamingly, flamingos, fumigants, gallamine, galvanism, gamboling, gammadion, gammoning, gazumping, geminally, geminated, geminates, gemmating, gemmation, geomantic, geraniums, germanium, germanize, germinate, giantisms, gigantism, gimbaling, gloamings, glutamine, gravamina, greenmail, grimacing, grimalkin, guildsman, gymnasium, gymnastic, gynaecium, hamboning, hammering, hampering, hamstring, ignoramus, imaginary, imaginers, imagining, imbalming, imbarking, imblazing, imitating, immigrant, impacting, impairing, imparking, imparting, impasting, impawning, inflaming, kingmaker, lamenting, lawmaking, ligaments, machining, maddening, magazines, magicians, magicking, magnesian, magnesias, magnesite, magnesium, magnetics, magnetise, magnetism, magnetite, magnetize, magnifico, magnified, magnifier, magnifies, magnitude, magnolias, malignant, maligners, maligning, malignity, malingers, mammering, manacling, mandating, mangabies, manganite, manginess, mantlings, mapmaking, marauding, marblings, margarine, margarins, marginate, margining, marketing, marooning, marrowing, martyring, marveling, massaging, mastering, mattering, meaningly, measuring, medalling, mediating, menagerie, meningeal, messaging, metalling, midranges, migraines, migrating, migration, misacting, misadding, misagents, misaiming, misaligns, misdating, miseating, mislaying, mismaking, mismanage, mismating, misnaming, mispaging, misrating, missaying, mistaking, monogamic, montaging, morganite, mortaring, mridangam, mridangas, mulligans, mutagenic, napalming, nightmare, nystagmic, omnirange, oompahing, organisms, origanums, paganisms, pampering, prearming, ptarmigan, ramblings, ramifying, rampaging, ransoming, reframing, reimagine, reimaging, remailing, remaining, remanding, remanning, remapping, remarking, reteaming, revamping, rewarming, rhumbaing, romancing, rummaging, salaaming, samplings, scramming, screaming, shambling, shammying, shamoying, signalman, signalmen, slaloming, streaming, summating, surnaming, syngamies, tampering, tamponing, trameling, trampling, umangites, umlauting, unamusing, unjamming, unmanning, unmasking, unmeaning, unseaming, vacuuming, vamoosing, varooming, veganisms, yammering.
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