Word to the Wise: Gamine
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A "gamine" (gam-EEN) – from the French for a child who wanders the streets – is a playfully mischievous girl or young woman.
Example (as used by Joe Brown in the Washington Post): "And the whole world is whacked out with fear of nuclear doom, except for Claire, a French gamine who is ‘living her own nightmare’ and waking up in lots of strange places."
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