Urchin

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A playful or mischievous youngster; a scamp.
  • n. A sea urchin.
  • n. A hedgehog.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A mischievous child.
  • n. street kid, a child from a poor neighborhood.
  • n. A hedgehog.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • 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.
  • adj. Rough; pricking; piercing.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A hedgehog. See hedgehog and Erinaceus.
  • n. A sea-urchin.
  • n. An elf; a fairy: from the supposition that it sometimes took the form of a hedgehog.
  • n. A roguish child; a mischievous boy.
  • n. One of a pair of small cylinders covered with card-clothing, used in connection with the card-drum in a carding-machine.
  • Elfish; mischievous.
  • Trifling; foolish.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. poor and often mischievous city child
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    youngster    minor    nestling    shaver    kid    tiddler    tyke    child    nipper    tike   
    Variant
    sea urchin   
    Hyponym
    tatterdemalion    ragamuffin    street urchin    guttersnipe   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    hedgehog    rough    pricking    piercing    chill   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    youngster    wench    brat    scamp    rascal    waif    wight    cherub    beggar    lout   
     
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