单词 | gamin |
释义 | gaminn.adj. A. n. A neglected boy who has been left to run about the streets; a street urchin, a guttersnipe; (more generally) a streetwise or impudent child. Also in extended use.Originally in French and French-speaking contexts. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > other people of low rank or condition > [noun] > street people > children > street-child blackguard1699 street girl1764 street boy1796 mudlark1814 street urchin1827 gamin1832 street child1839 Arab1847 street Arab1853 muckworm1859 scuttler1867 gutter-snipec1869 gutter-child1870 gavroche1876 gutter-snippet1891 voyoua1896 street kid1910 dead-end kid1928 gurrier1936 1832 Leicester Chron. 16 June The coach..was being drawn by a mob of gamins along the quay. 1840 W. M. Thackeray Paris Sketch Bk. I. 12 There are the little gamins mocking him. 1864 F. W. Robinson Mattie x. 25 One Kent Street gamin out on business and dodging the policeman behind a Patent Safety. 1873 C. M. Yonge Pillars of House (1880) I. vi. 134 ‘Our little gamin has the most of the Good Samaritan in him,’ said Mr. Audley. 1907 ‘N. Blanchan’ Birds Every Child should Know viii. 108 How wonderfully that saucy little gamin, the English sparrow, has adjusted himself to this new land! 1927 Amer. Mercury July 291/1 The diapered young saint..approached a crowd of gamins playing in the gutter. 1977 N. Shepherd Living Mountain viii. 57 A voice by my side asked: ‘Is this the way to Ben MacDhui?’ and looking down I saw what at first glance I took to be a street gamin of eleven. 2006 New Yorker 25 Sept. 106/1 I would have grown up in unquestioned Orthodoxy, tough little cocksure fisticuffian gamin. B. adj. Characteristic of a gamin; = gaminesque adj. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > other people of low rank or condition > [adjective] > belonging to the streets > children blackguard1691 gamin1837 gamine1903 1837 New Monthly Mag. July 416 The gamin tribe..exists between ten and fifteen years of age. 1883 Cent. Mag. Feb. 576/1 The reproduction on canvas of the small street Arab of New York..preserving all their delightful gamin characteristics. 1925 D. H. Lawrence Refl. Death Porcupine 68 The gamin exultance: ‘Yah! I got myself out all right!’ 1927 H. V. Morton In Search of Eng. vi. 129 You wrestle with a gamin desire to turn round in the direction of the tower and put out your tongue. 1984 K. Hulme Bone People (1985) vii. 283 A sparrow of a woman, but without a sparrow's gamin cheerfulness. 1999 P. Curtis Sculpture 1900–1945 vii. 230 Broad and gamin smiles corroborate the effect of spontaneity made permanent. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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