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 only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery