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

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