Definitions for URCHIN
ˈɜr tʃɪnurchin

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. urchinnoun

   poor and often mischievous city child

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. urchinnoun

   A mischievous child.

2. urchinnoun

   street kid, a child from a poor neighborhood.

3. urchinnoun

   A hedgehog.

4. Etymology: Ultimately from ericius.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Urchinnoun

   Etymology: heureuchin, Armorick; erinaceus, Lat.

   1. A hedge-hog.

   Urchins shall, for that vast of night that they may work,
   All exercise on thee. William Shakespeare, Tempest.

   A thousand fiends, a thousand hissing snakes,
   Ten thousand swelling toads, as many urchins,
   Would make such fearful and confused cries,
   As any mortal body, hearing it,
   Would straight fall mad. William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus.

   That nature designs the preservation of the more infirm creatures, by the defensive armour it hath given them, is demonstrable in the common hedge-hog, or urchin. John Ray.

   2. A name of slight anger to a child.

   Pleas’d Cupid heard, and check’d his mother’s pride:
   And who’s blind now, mamma? the urchin cry’d.
   ’Tis Cloe’s eye, and cheek, and lip, and breast:
   Friend Howard’s genius fancy’d all the rest. Matthew Prior.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. urchin

   An urchin is either a small child who is unkempt and poorly cared for, often used to refer to street children or orphans; or a marine invertebrate animal known as a sea urchin, which has a rounded body covered with sharp spines. The term is derived from Middle English 'urchoun', which means 'hedgehog'.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Urchinnoun

   a hedgehog

2. Urchinnoun

   a sea urchin. See Sea urchin

3. Urchinnoun

   a mischievous elf supposed sometimes to take the form a hedgehog

4. Urchinnoun

   a pert or roguish child; -- now commonly used only of a boy

5. Urchinnoun

   one of a pair in a series of small card cylinders, arranged around a carding drum; -- so called from its fancied resemblance to the hedgehog

6. Urchinadjective

   rough; pricking; piercing

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Urchin

   Urchin was an English hard rock band.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Urchin

   ur′chin, n. a hedgehog: a mischievous child, an elf, fairy.—adj. elfish, mischievous. [O. Fr. eriçon (Fr. hérisson)—L. ericius, a hedgehog.]

The New Hacker's DictionaryRate this definition:1.0 / 1 vote

1. urchin

   See munchkin.

Matched Categories

1. • Child

Anagrams for URCHIN »

1. unrich

How to pronounce URCHIN?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say URCHIN in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of URCHIN in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of URCHIN in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of URCHIN in a Sentence

1. Atchan Tamaki:

   The lobster fishermen kept asking me if there was a market for sea urchin because they were getting a lot of them in the traps.

2. Gary Paulsen:

   And it became a sanctuary for me, the librarian -- she watched me for a while. I was kind of this urchin, you know, a street urchin. Then she finally said, you want something ? I said, nah I'm OK. And she gave me a card and -- hard to talk about it. It was a card with my name on it. And, God, nobody had given me anything like that. Nobody gave me anything.

3. John Berger:

   Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn't changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.

4. Joe Leask:

   We started out diving for 25 cents an urchin. When I got 35 cents a pound, I thought I was going to get rich. Then, it hit a dollar a pound and we all celebrated -- and then it hit $2 a pound.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=URCHIN
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Urchin
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=URCHIN
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/URCHIN
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=URCHIN
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=URCHIN
8. ^ The New Hacker's Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3008/3008-h/3008-h.htm#Urchin