noun. An often homeless girl who roams about the streets; an urchin.

noun. A petite, charming girl or woman, especially one with a playful demeanor.

noun. a female street urchin

noun. a mischievous, playful, elfish, pert girl or young woman

adjective. having a boyish, mischievous charm; tomboyish.

noun. a homeless girl who roams the streets

noun. a girl of impish appeal

"Even a 'gamine' (!) metropolitan poof like me finds the typical infants school to be a revoltingly feminised place: it brings out my inner caveman and I just want to run along the corridors swearing and farting and kicking things."

fille  girl  guttersnipe  miss  missy  

bonehead  death's-head  ear-to-ear  fosterling  military-style  

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