gamin

Now began what she called her literary school-boy life (vie d'ecolier litteraire), her vie de gamin.

Little cared for by his father, he was brought up by his grandfather, a tailor, who let him roam the streets as a gamin.

Master and dog were hustled outside the gate and into a rabble of jeering slum gamin.

"Neither Georges nor the Dragon are honest souls enough to trust themselves with their cups," said the knowing gamin.

She has been scolding me, though if it comes to that I gave it her back with far more gamin in my tongue.