noun
- a neglected girl who is left to run about the streets.
- a diminutive or very slender girl, especially one who is pert, impudent, or playfully mischievous.
adjective
- of or like a gamine: a gamine personality; clothes for the gamine figure.
noun
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- a slim and boyish girl or young woman; an elfish tomboy
- (as modifier)a gamine style of haircut
n.
“small, slim, pert young girl,” 1899, from French gamine, fem. of gamin.