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Definition of Urchin in English :

1. urchin

poor and often mischievous city child

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Urchin

noun

1.

a mischievous roguish child, esp one who is young, small, or raggedly dressed

2. sea urchin, heart urchin

3. an archaic or dialect name for a hedgehog

4.

either of the two cylinders in a carding machine that are covered with carding cloth

5. obsolete

an elf or sprite

noun

1. Archaic

a hedgehog

2.

sea urchin

3.

a small child, esp. a boy, who is poor, ragged, etc. and often mischievous or undisciplined

4. Obsolete

an elf

n.

1. A playful or mischievous youngster; a scamp.

2. A sea urchin.

3. Archaic A hedgehog.