different between gamine vs gaming

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French gamine.

Noun

gamine (plural gamines)

1. A (usually female) street urchin; a homeless girl.
2. A mischievous, playful, elfish, pert girl or young woman.

Translations

Adjective

gamine (comparative more gamine, superlative most gamine)

1. (of a girl) Having a boyish, mischievous charm; tomboyish.

Translations

See also

• gamin

Anagrams

• Enigma, enigma, imagen, in-game

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.min/

Noun

gamine f (plural gamines, masculine gamin)

1. kid (child)

Further reading

• “gamine” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• igname

Middle English

Verb

gamine

1. (Early Middle English) Alternative form of gamen

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??e?m??/
• Rhymes: -e?m??

Verb

gaming

1. present participle of game

Noun

gaming (countable and uncountable, plural gamings)

1. The playing of a game or games, including but not limited to video games and games of chance.
   • 1678, Robert Barclay, An Apology for the True Christian Divinity

     […] the unprofitable plays, frivolous recreations, sportings, and gamings which are invented to pass away the precious time, and divert the mind from the witness of God […]
2. Careful, strategic use of rules to achieve one's purposes, as one would use the rules of a game.

Derived terms

• gaming attendant
• gaming purse
• gaming the system
• pre-gaming

Anagrams

• gigman

Cebuano

Etymology

gamay +? -ing

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ga?ming

Verb

gaming

1. to shrink in size or quantity

Adjective

gaming

1. small, little