GAMINESQUE

PRONUNCIATION: (gam-uh-NESK)

MEANING: adjective: Playfully impudent or mischievous.

ETYMOLOGY: From French gamine (a pert, impudent, or mischievous girl), feminine of gamin (a young boy working as a glassblower’s assistant), of obscure origin. Earliest documented use: 1886.
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GARMINESQUE - like a dedicated GPS tracker

AMINESQUE - like an organic acid

GAMINE-SLUE - when the imp's sled spins 'round and 'round on the way down the hill