Meaning

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

    беспризо́рницаbesprizórnica

    a homeless girl who roams the streets

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

    прока́зницаprokáznica

Examples

1 sentences
  1. Tom once described Mary as having a gamine look.

Translations

2 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
a female street urchin; a homeless girl:
a mischievous, playful, elfish, pert girl or young woman:

Origin

Borrowed from French gamine.

Borrowed from French gamine.

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Forms

plural: gamines
Singulargamine
Pluralgamines

regular

Word family

1 related words
Derivedgaminish

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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