Urchin

n.	1.
	1.	(Zool.) A hedgehog.
	2.	(Zool.) A sea urchin. See Sea urchin.
	3.	A mischievous elf supposed sometimes to take the form a hedgehog.
	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. Urchin fish (Zool.) a diodon.
a.	1.	Rough; pricking; piercing.

Noun

1.

urchin - poor and often mischievous city child

urchin - See munchkin.

Arab, JD, beach bum, beachcomber, beggar, bo, brat, bum, bummer, cub, dickens, dogie, elf, enfant terrible, gamin, gamine, guttersnipe, hobbledehoy, hobo, holy terror, homeless waif, idler, imp, juvenile delinquent, landloper, lazzarone, little monkey, loafer, losel, minx, monkey, mudlark, piker, puck, punk, punk kid, pup, ragamuffin, ragman, ragpicker, rounder, ski bum, spoiled brat, stiff, stray, street Arab, street arab, street urchin, sundowner, surf bum, swagman, swagsman, tatterdemalion, tennis bum, tramp, turnpiker, vag, vagabond, vagrant, waif, waifs and strays, wastrel, whelp, whippersnapper

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