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

n. A girl or woman of impish appeal.

n. a female street urchin

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

adj. having a boyish, mischievous charm; tomboyish.

n. a homeless girl who roams the streets

n. 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."

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