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The word gamine is a French word, the feminine form of gamin, originally meaning urchin, waif or playful, naughty child. It was used in English from about the mid-19th century (for example, by William Makepeace Thackeray in 1840 in one of his Parisian sketches), but in the 20th century came to be applied in its more modern sense.
This is a list of words that have entered the English language from the Yiddish language, many of them by way of American English.There are differing approaches to the romanization of Yiddish orthography (which uses the Hebrew alphabet); thus, the spelling of some of the words in this list may be variable (for example, shlep is a variant of schlep, and shnozz, schnoz).
Word British English meanings Meanings common to British and American English American English meanings oblique (n.) slash symbol a muscle neither parallel nor perpendicular to the long axis of a body or limb onesie (n.) Onesie (jumpsuit): One-piece garment worn by older children and adults as loungewear.
Tinker for metal-worker is attested from the thirteenth century as tyckner or tinkler. [1] Some travelling groups and Romani people specialised in the trade, and the name was particularly associated with indigenous Irish Travellers and Scottish Highland Travellers – the name of whose language Beurla Reagaird means "metalworkers". [2]
Alternative spellings include gobblin, gobeline, gobling, goblyn, goblino, and gobbelin.The term "goblette" has been used to refer to female goblins. [3] [4]The word goblin is first recorded in the 14th century and is probably from unattested Anglo-Norman *gobelin, [5] similar to Old French gobelin, already attested around 1195 in Ambroise of Normandy's Guerre sainte, and to Medieval Latin ...
Jerry - The mischievous mouse who constantly plays tricks on the tomcat from the show Tom and Jerry. Joker - The main protagonist of Persona 5 and leader of The Phantom Thieves of Hearts. The Pink Panther - A character featured at the start of the film and the animated series of the same name.
Patufet's monument in Folch i Torres's square of Granollers, Catalonia.Work of Efraïm Rodríguez Cover of the first issue of En Patufet magazine. Patufet (Catalan pronunciation: [pətuˈfɛt], also known as Garbancito in Spanish) is the main character of one of the most famous folktales of Catalan tradition.
David is an energetic and mischievous child, and throughout the story, David is constantly engaging in antics that always lead to his mother’s disapproval. On the first illustration, the text reads, "David's mother always said, 'NO DAVID!'". The first illustration depicts David using crayons to draw on the living room wall.