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urchin
[ur-chin]
noun
a mischievous boy.
Synonyms: ,any small boy or youngster.
either of two small rollers covered with card clothing used in conjunction with the cylinder in carding.
Chiefly British Dialect.a hedgehog.
Obsolete.an elf or mischievous sprite.
urchin
/ ˈɜːʃɪ /
noun
a mischievous roguish child, esp one who is young, small, or raggedly dressed
an archaic or dialect name for a hedgehog
either of the two cylinders in a carding machine that are covered with carding cloth
obsoletean elf or sprite
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of urchin1
Example Sentences
Massara, an Italian restaurant in New York City, even serves a cold pasta: a chilled spaghetti with red prawn and briny, decadent sea urchin.
The tribalistic Bay Boys deserve sea urchin spikes jammed into their toes.
The carnivorous sea stars munch on purple urchins and might even ward them off by making them fearful using chemical cues.
I dreamed of preparing sea urchins with a “sous chef” boyfriend; he didn’t cook, and his palate was from the kids menu.
The self-declared "fossil geek" said he came across some unusual-looking fragments which turned out to be pieces of sea lily - an underwater species related to starfish and sea urchins - in a piece of chalk.
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