What does urchin mean?
Definitions for urchin
ˈɜr tʃɪnurchin
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Princeton's WordNet
urchinnoun
poor and often mischievous city child
Wiktionary
urchinnoun
A mischievous child.
urchinnoun
street kid, a child from a poor neighborhood.
urchinnoun
A hedgehog.
Etymology: Ultimately from ericius.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Urchinnoun
Etymology: heureuchin, Armorick; erinaceus, Lat.
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.
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.
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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 Dictionary
Urchinnoun
a hedgehog
Urchinnoun
a sea urchin. See Sea urchin
Urchinnoun
a mischievous elf supposed sometimes to take the form a hedgehog
Urchinnoun
a pert or roguish child; -- now commonly used only of a boy
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
Urchinadjective
rough; pricking; piercing
Wikidata
Urchin
Urchin was an English hard rock band.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
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 Dictionary
urchin
See munchkin.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of urchin in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of urchin in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
Examples of urchin in a Sentence
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.
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.
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.
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.
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- Bengel, IgelGerman
- αλητάκι, διαβολάκι, παλιόπαιδοGreek
- gamina, erizo, golfillo, gamínSpanish
- خارپشتPersian
- gamine, hérisson, gamin, garnementFrench
- sündisznó, lurkó, csibész, utcagyerekHungarian
- peste, monello, birichino, riccioItalian
- egel, straatjongen, bengelDutch
- moleque, pivetePortuguese
- ariciRomanian
- ёж, проказник, беспризорник, оборванец, баловник, озорникRussian
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