Urchin
['ɜːtʃɪn]
Definition
(n.) A hedgehog.
(n.) A sea urchin. See Sea urchin.
(n.) A mischievous elf supposed sometimes to take the form a hedgehog.
(n.) A pert or roguish child; -- now commonly used only of a boy.
(n.) 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.
(a.) Rough; pricking; piercing.
Checker: Nona
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Hedge-hog.[2]. [Ludicrous.] Child, brat.
Editor: Rosanne
Definition
n. a hedgehog: a mischievous child an elf fairy.—adj. elfish mischievous.
Typed by Harley
Examples
- Such is the way of the world, Peter; and as you are the legitimate urchin, rude, unwashed, and naughty, you must stand down. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Love is no mischievous urchin, who plays with his arrows; no, he is a great and terrible divinity, who comes to every mortal but once in life. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Upon my word, Mr. Dempster, you pay my feelings a great compliment in thinking them weak enough to be shocked by such an urchin as that! Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I remember her a mangy little urchin picking weeds in the garden. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- In the sea-urchins the steps can be followed by which a fixed spine becomes articulated to the shell, and is thus rendered movable. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The Echinodermata (star-fishes, sea-urchins, etc. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- This carriage, too, drove away, and the urchins gave another sarcastical cheer. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The urchins, always frightened before him, retired: their mother would have followed too. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Get out of the way, you little devils, George cried to a small crowd of damp urchins, that were hanging about the chapel-door. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
Checked by Edwin