Associations to the word «Urchin»

Wiktionary

URCHIN, noun. A mischievous child.
URCHIN, noun. A street kid, a child from a poor neighborhood.
URCHIN, noun. (archaic) A hedgehog.
URCHIN, noun. A sea urchin.
URCHIN, noun. A mischievous elf supposed sometimes to take the form of a hedgehog.
URCHIN, noun. 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.
URCHIN, noun. (historical) A neutron-generating device that triggered the nuclear detonation of the earliest plutonium atomic bombs.
URCHIN FISH, noun. A porcupine fish.
URCHIN FISHES, noun. Plural of urchin fish

Dictionary definition

URCHIN, noun. Poor and often mischievous city child.

Wise words

It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.
Pythagoras