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Urchin

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Urchin Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Urchin?

[n] poor and often mischievous city child

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See Also | child | fry | guttersnipe | kid | minor | nestling | nipper | ragamuffin | shaver | small fry | street urchin | tatterdemalion | tiddler | tike | tyke | youngster

Urchin In Webster's Dictionary

\Ur"chin\, n. [OE. urchon, irchon, a hedgehog, OF. ire[,c]on, eri[,c]on, heri?on, herichon, F. h['e]risson, a derivative fr. L. ericius, from er a hedgehog, for her; akin to Gr. ?. Cf. {Herisson}.] 1. (Zo["o]l.) A hedgehog. 2. (Zo["o]l.) A sea urchin. See {Sea urchin}. 3. A mischievous elf supposed sometimes to take the form a hedgehog. ``We 'll dress [them] like urchins, ouphes, and fairies.'' --Shak. 4. A pert or roguish child; -- now commonly used only of a boy. And the urchins that stand with their thievish eyes Forever on watch ran off each with a prize. --W. Howitt. You did indeed dissemble, you urchin you; but where's the girl that won't dissemble for an husband? --Goldsmith. 5. 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. --Knight. {Urchin fish} (Zo["o]l.), a diodon.
\Ur"chin\, a. Rough; pricking; piercing. [R.] ``Helping all urchin blasts.'' --Milton.

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