Definition of urchin in English:

urchin

noun ˈəːtʃɪnˈərtʃən

1A young child who is poorly or raggedly dressed.
顽童，淘气鬼（尤指穿着破烂邋遢者）
he was surrounded by a dozen street urchins in rags
Example sentencesExamples
- The streets teem with hustling, bustling humanity, hag-like beggar women, street urchins and drunken revellers urinating against inn walls, all rubbing shoulders with the gentry in their smart clothes and carriages.
- Christian people of the day used to come together to educate the local street urchins, and often found that they had to feed the kids before they could teach them anything, they were so starving.
- We are approached, then pursued, by a small posse of grubby, half-naked street urchins.
- Two native maids carried baskets of laundry, and some young urchins played a game with old dice, wagering stones.
- Stories abound of coal wagons stripped of half their load by street urchins before a first delivery could be made.
- The young urchin had learned that move while wrestling with the other boys in the East Hill streets.
- I don't miss the little street urchins who offered to mind the car for 50p, leaving you with a vague threat that they'd do your car in if you didn't pay up.
- Having a neat hole in your front door isn't entirely wise in the days of wandering street urchins with fireworks in their pockets just ripe for destructive mischief.
- Well, the young girl just ran after the urchin, down the street she ran, and turned the corner.
- He had told her that there would always be street urchins, to young and weak to work, scouring the streets for pockets to pick.
- I was chased away by men in suits who thought that I was a street urchin.
- It will be the first taste of love, stability and continuing care the ten former street urchins will have encountered.
- Set in 2,500 square metres of land, the newly-built house, to be called Genesis, will become the refuge, and salvation, of ten destitute street urchins.
- Some street urchins and migrant workers then moved in and produced a lot of rubbish in the building.
- These street urchins are rambling around the neighborhood, grabbing anything that isn't bolted down, and are cashing in their finds less than two blocks from the scene of the crime.
- The scallywags and street urchins of 1920s Kingston had come up with a new way of extracting a few pennies from unsuspecting members of the public.
- Of course, the little urchins must be properly dressed.
- Club secretary Brian Mulenga, who has been there from the start, says the team evolved from a clutch of ragged street urchins who toyed with homemade plastic balls on dusty patches of land.
- With a bald head, thin limbs and swollen belly, he is a street urchin of about eight.
- Though the city is witnessing changes in the system of solid waste disposal, old habits of street urchins to rummage through the garbage bins for various kinds of scrapes seem to continue.
Synonyms
mischievous child, imp, monkey, Puck, rascal, rogue, minx, mischief-maker, prankster, tearaway
ragamuffin, guttersnipe, waif, stray
informal scamp, scallywag, brat, whippersnapper, horror, varmint, scarecrow
British informal perisher, pickle, tinker
North American informal hellion
dated jackanapes, rip, gamin, gamine
historical mudlark
archaic scapegrace, street Arab, wastrel, tatterdemalion
1. 1.1archaic A goblin.
  〈古〉小精灵，小妖精
2
short for sea urchin
Example sentencesExamples
- The soft coral is far more spectacular than you expected and the urchins are there in their thousands.
- Kids also enjoy the tide pool touch tank filled with sea stars, urchins, and horseshoe crabs.
- The senior students were keen to observe the invertebrate marine animals, such as starfish, urchins and crustaceans.
- If the sea otters are not around to eat the urchins, scientists fear the urchins will wipe out the forests.
- Animals examined as part of the study include deep-ocean sea cucumbers, urchins and brittle stars.
- Otters mostly feed on invertebrates such as urchins, squid, octopus, crabs, abalone and other mollusks.
- It is the skeletons of these latter creatures and sediments from algae, coral, snails, urchins, and other calcium rich organisms which glom together over hundreds of thousands of years to form reefs on the island fringe.
- Without sea otters, urchins overgraze the kelp, eating the base of the plant so that it becomes detached from the sea floor and dies.
- You can find urchins and starfish on the rocky ledges and brittle stars and edible crabs on the sandy bottom.
- You will often find species of shrimp living on urchins and starfish in the tropics and, if you look carefully, might also find very small hermit crabs adopting the same behaviour, particularly on starfish.
- They passed a large rock covered in anemones, urchins, and sea stars.
- Birds, fish and mammals feast on the barnacles, snails, urchins and other animals that vary from tiny shore crabs to spectacular giant green anemones.
- Abalone and urchins are two of the most prized and highly priced seafood delicacies worldwide.
- The mouth of urchins, located on the test's flat bottom (oral side), is called Aristotle's Lantern, named after the Greek philosopher who first described it.
- In fact, California purple urchins share more than 7,000 genes with humans, making them closer cousins to us than are fruit flies and worms, animals more commonly used as models in genetics research.
- They grow to an impressive size and pass the time cracking open hard-shelled creatures like crabs and urchins between their fearsome teeth.
- Individuals tend to be specialized in their choice of prey: one otter may consume only urchins and crabs while another will eat mostly fish, all depending on the abilities of the individual otter and what is available in the area.
- Where sea otters are present, the urchins are limited by otter predation and kelp forests are abundant.
- In the past, the fish and urchins fed on the algae, allowing the coral to grow.
- Stare into a rockpool, and it's like being a kid again: urchins of every colour feed among weird and wonderful molluscs.
3dialect A hedgehog.
〈主方〉刺猬
Example sentencesExamples
- The name sea urchin comes from an old English meaning of urchin: hedgehog.

Origin

Middle English hirchon, urchon 'hedgehog', from Old Northern French herichon, based on Latin hericius 'hedgehog'.

An urchin was originally a hedgehog, and the name, based on Latin hericius ‘hedgehog’, is still used in some English dialects. People started applying urchin to poor, raggedly dressed children in the mid 16th century, though this did not become common until more than 200 years later. As a name for a marine invertebrate sea urchin comes from the original sense, referring to the spines on its shell.

Definition of urchin in US English:

urchin

nounˈərtʃənˈərCHən

1A mischievous young child, especially one who is poorly or raggedly dressed.
顽童，淘气鬼（尤指穿着破烂邋遢者）
he was surrounded by a dozen street urchins in rags
Example sentencesExamples
- Two native maids carried baskets of laundry, and some young urchins played a game with old dice, wagering stones.
- I don't miss the little street urchins who offered to mind the car for 50p, leaving you with a vague threat that they'd do your car in if you didn't pay up.
- The young urchin had learned that move while wrestling with the other boys in the East Hill streets.
- These street urchins are rambling around the neighborhood, grabbing anything that isn't bolted down, and are cashing in their finds less than two blocks from the scene of the crime.
- We are approached, then pursued, by a small posse of grubby, half-naked street urchins.
- He had told her that there would always be street urchins, to young and weak to work, scouring the streets for pockets to pick.
- With a bald head, thin limbs and swollen belly, he is a street urchin of about eight.
- Stories abound of coal wagons stripped of half their load by street urchins before a first delivery could be made.
- Set in 2,500 square metres of land, the newly-built house, to be called Genesis, will become the refuge, and salvation, of ten destitute street urchins.
- Club secretary Brian Mulenga, who has been there from the start, says the team evolved from a clutch of ragged street urchins who toyed with homemade plastic balls on dusty patches of land.
- Though the city is witnessing changes in the system of solid waste disposal, old habits of street urchins to rummage through the garbage bins for various kinds of scrapes seem to continue.
- The scallywags and street urchins of 1920s Kingston had come up with a new way of extracting a few pennies from unsuspecting members of the public.
- It will be the first taste of love, stability and continuing care the ten former street urchins will have encountered.
- Some street urchins and migrant workers then moved in and produced a lot of rubbish in the building.
- I was chased away by men in suits who thought that I was a street urchin.
- Well, the young girl just ran after the urchin, down the street she ran, and turned the corner.
- Of course, the little urchins must be properly dressed.
- The streets teem with hustling, bustling humanity, hag-like beggar women, street urchins and drunken revellers urinating against inn walls, all rubbing shoulders with the gentry in their smart clothes and carriages.
- Having a neat hole in your front door isn't entirely wise in the days of wandering street urchins with fireworks in their pockets just ripe for destructive mischief.
- Christian people of the day used to come together to educate the local street urchins, and often found that they had to feed the kids before they could teach them anything, they were so starving.
Synonyms
mischievous child, imp, monkey, puck, rascal, rogue, minx, mischief-maker, prankster, tearaway
1. 1.1archaic A goblin.
  〈古〉小精灵，小妖精
2
short for sea urchin
Example sentencesExamples
- They passed a large rock covered in anemones, urchins, and sea stars.
- The mouth of urchins, located on the test's flat bottom (oral side), is called Aristotle's Lantern, named after the Greek philosopher who first described it.
- Where sea otters are present, the urchins are limited by otter predation and kelp forests are abundant.
- Animals examined as part of the study include deep-ocean sea cucumbers, urchins and brittle stars.
- They grow to an impressive size and pass the time cracking open hard-shelled creatures like crabs and urchins between their fearsome teeth.
- In the past, the fish and urchins fed on the algae, allowing the coral to grow.
- Kids also enjoy the tide pool touch tank filled with sea stars, urchins, and horseshoe crabs.
- Stare into a rockpool, and it's like being a kid again: urchins of every colour feed among weird and wonderful molluscs.
- Otters mostly feed on invertebrates such as urchins, squid, octopus, crabs, abalone and other mollusks.
- Without sea otters, urchins overgraze the kelp, eating the base of the plant so that it becomes detached from the sea floor and dies.
- You can find urchins and starfish on the rocky ledges and brittle stars and edible crabs on the sandy bottom.
- Birds, fish and mammals feast on the barnacles, snails, urchins and other animals that vary from tiny shore crabs to spectacular giant green anemones.
- Individuals tend to be specialized in their choice of prey: one otter may consume only urchins and crabs while another will eat mostly fish, all depending on the abilities of the individual otter and what is available in the area.
- It is the skeletons of these latter creatures and sediments from algae, coral, snails, urchins, and other calcium rich organisms which glom together over hundreds of thousands of years to form reefs on the island fringe.
- The senior students were keen to observe the invertebrate marine animals, such as starfish, urchins and crustaceans.
- If the sea otters are not around to eat the urchins, scientists fear the urchins will wipe out the forests.
- The soft coral is far more spectacular than you expected and the urchins are there in their thousands.
- Abalone and urchins are two of the most prized and highly priced seafood delicacies worldwide.
- You will often find species of shrimp living on urchins and starfish in the tropics and, if you look carefully, might also find very small hermit crabs adopting the same behaviour, particularly on starfish.
- In fact, California purple urchins share more than 7,000 genes with humans, making them closer cousins to us than are fruit flies and worms, animals more commonly used as models in genetics research.
3dialect A hedgehog.
〈主方〉刺猬
Example sentencesExamples
- The name sea urchin comes from an old English meaning of urchin: hedgehog.

Origin

Middle English hirchon, urchon ‘hedgehog’, from Old Northern French herichon, based on Latin hericius ‘hedgehog’.

词汇	urchin
释义	Definition of urchin in English: urchin noun ˈəːtʃɪnˈərtʃən 1A young child who is poorly or raggedly dressed. 顽童，淘气鬼（尤指穿着破烂邋遢者） he was surrounded by a dozen street urchins in rags Example sentencesExamples The streets teem with hustling, bustling humanity, hag-like beggar women, street urchins and drunken revellers urinating against inn walls, all rubbing shoulders with the gentry in their smart clothes and carriages. Christian people of the day used to come together to educate the local street urchins, and often found that they had to feed the kids before they could teach them anything, they were so starving. We are approached, then pursued, by a small posse of grubby, half-naked street urchins. Two native maids carried baskets of laundry, and some young urchins played a game with old dice, wagering stones. Stories abound of coal wagons stripped of half their load by street urchins before a first delivery could be made. The young urchin had learned that move while wrestling with the other boys in the East Hill streets. I don't miss the little street urchins who offered to mind the car for 50p, leaving you with a vague threat that they'd do your car in if you didn't pay up. Having a neat hole in your front door isn't entirely wise in the days of wandering street urchins with fireworks in their pockets just ripe for destructive mischief. Well, the young girl just ran after the urchin, down the street she ran, and turned the corner. He had told her that there would always be street urchins, to young and weak to work, scouring the streets for pockets to pick. I was chased away by men in suits who thought that I was a street urchin. It will be the first taste of love, stability and continuing care the ten former street urchins will have encountered. Set in 2,500 square metres of land, the newly-built house, to be called Genesis, will become the refuge, and salvation, of ten destitute street urchins. Some street urchins and migrant workers then moved in and produced a lot of rubbish in the building. These street urchins are rambling around the neighborhood, grabbing anything that isn't bolted down, and are cashing in their finds less than two blocks from the scene of the crime. The scallywags and street urchins of 1920s Kingston had come up with a new way of extracting a few pennies from unsuspecting members of the public. Of course, the little urchins must be properly dressed. Club secretary Brian Mulenga, who has been there from the start, says the team evolved from a clutch of ragged street urchins who toyed with homemade plastic balls on dusty patches of land. With a bald head, thin limbs and swollen belly, he is a street urchin of about eight. Though the city is witnessing changes in the system of solid waste disposal, old habits of street urchins to rummage through the garbage bins for various kinds of scrapes seem to continue. Synonyms mischievous child, imp, monkey, Puck, rascal, rogue, minx, mischief-maker, prankster, tearaway ragamuffin, guttersnipe, waif, stray informal scamp, scallywag, brat, whippersnapper, horror, varmint, scarecrow British informal perisher, pickle, tinker North American informal hellion dated jackanapes, rip, gamin, gamine historical mudlark archaic scapegrace, street Arab, wastrel, tatterdemalion 1.1archaic A goblin. 〈古〉小精灵，小妖精 2 short for sea urchin Example sentencesExamples The soft coral is far more spectacular than you expected and the urchins are there in their thousands. Kids also enjoy the tide pool touch tank filled with sea stars, urchins, and horseshoe crabs. The senior students were keen to observe the invertebrate marine animals, such as starfish, urchins and crustaceans. If the sea otters are not around to eat the urchins, scientists fear the urchins will wipe out the forests. Animals examined as part of the study include deep-ocean sea cucumbers, urchins and brittle stars. Otters mostly feed on invertebrates such as urchins, squid, octopus, crabs, abalone and other mollusks. It is the skeletons of these latter creatures and sediments from algae, coral, snails, urchins, and other calcium rich organisms which glom together over hundreds of thousands of years to form reefs on the island fringe. Without sea otters, urchins overgraze the kelp, eating the base of the plant so that it becomes detached from the sea floor and dies. You can find urchins and starfish on the rocky ledges and brittle stars and edible crabs on the sandy bottom. You will often find species of shrimp living on urchins and starfish in the tropics and, if you look carefully, might also find very small hermit crabs adopting the same behaviour, particularly on starfish. They passed a large rock covered in anemones, urchins, and sea stars. Birds, fish and mammals feast on the barnacles, snails, urchins and other animals that vary from tiny shore crabs to spectacular giant green anemones. Abalone and urchins are two of the most prized and highly priced seafood delicacies worldwide. The mouth of urchins, located on the test's flat bottom (oral side), is called Aristotle's Lantern, named after the Greek philosopher who first described it. In fact, California purple urchins share more than 7,000 genes with humans, making them closer cousins to us than are fruit flies and worms, animals more commonly used as models in genetics research. They grow to an impressive size and pass the time cracking open hard-shelled creatures like crabs and urchins between their fearsome teeth. Individuals tend to be specialized in their choice of prey: one otter may consume only urchins and crabs while another will eat mostly fish, all depending on the abilities of the individual otter and what is available in the area. Where sea otters are present, the urchins are limited by otter predation and kelp forests are abundant. In the past, the fish and urchins fed on the algae, allowing the coral to grow. Stare into a rockpool, and it's like being a kid again: urchins of every colour feed among weird and wonderful molluscs. 3dialect A hedgehog. 〈主方〉刺猬 Example sentencesExamples The name sea urchin comes from an old English meaning of urchin: hedgehog. Origin Middle English hirchon, urchon 'hedgehog', from Old Northern French herichon, based on Latin hericius 'hedgehog'. An urchin was originally a hedgehog, and the name, based on Latin hericius ‘hedgehog’, is still used in some English dialects. People started applying urchin to poor, raggedly dressed children in the mid 16th century, though this did not become common until more than 200 years later. As a name for a marine invertebrate sea urchin comes from the original sense, referring to the spines on its shell. Definition of urchin in US English: urchin nounˈərtʃənˈərCHən 1A mischievous young child, especially one who is poorly or raggedly dressed. 顽童，淘气鬼（尤指穿着破烂邋遢者） he was surrounded by a dozen street urchins in rags Example sentencesExamples Two native maids carried baskets of laundry, and some young urchins played a game with old dice, wagering stones. I don't miss the little street urchins who offered to mind the car for 50p, leaving you with a vague threat that they'd do your car in if you didn't pay up. The young urchin had learned that move while wrestling with the other boys in the East Hill streets. These street urchins are rambling around the neighborhood, grabbing anything that isn't bolted down, and are cashing in their finds less than two blocks from the scene of the crime. We are approached, then pursued, by a small posse of grubby, half-naked street urchins. He had told her that there would always be street urchins, to young and weak to work, scouring the streets for pockets to pick. With a bald head, thin limbs and swollen belly, he is a street urchin of about eight. Stories abound of coal wagons stripped of half their load by street urchins before a first delivery could be made. Set in 2,500 square metres of land, the newly-built house, to be called Genesis, will become the refuge, and salvation, of ten destitute street urchins. Club secretary Brian Mulenga, who has been there from the start, says the team evolved from a clutch of ragged street urchins who toyed with homemade plastic balls on dusty patches of land. Though the city is witnessing changes in the system of solid waste disposal, old habits of street urchins to rummage through the garbage bins for various kinds of scrapes seem to continue. The scallywags and street urchins of 1920s Kingston had come up with a new way of extracting a few pennies from unsuspecting members of the public. It will be the first taste of love, stability and continuing care the ten former street urchins will have encountered. Some street urchins and migrant workers then moved in and produced a lot of rubbish in the building. I was chased away by men in suits who thought that I was a street urchin. Well, the young girl just ran after the urchin, down the street she ran, and turned the corner. Of course, the little urchins must be properly dressed. The streets teem with hustling, bustling humanity, hag-like beggar women, street urchins and drunken revellers urinating against inn walls, all rubbing shoulders with the gentry in their smart clothes and carriages. Having a neat hole in your front door isn't entirely wise in the days of wandering street urchins with fireworks in their pockets just ripe for destructive mischief. Christian people of the day used to come together to educate the local street urchins, and often found that they had to feed the kids before they could teach them anything, they were so starving. Synonyms mischievous child, imp, monkey, puck, rascal, rogue, minx, mischief-maker, prankster, tearaway 1.1archaic A goblin. 〈古〉小精灵，小妖精 2 short for sea urchin Example sentencesExamples They passed a large rock covered in anemones, urchins, and sea stars. The mouth of urchins, located on the test's flat bottom (oral side), is called Aristotle's Lantern, named after the Greek philosopher who first described it. Where sea otters are present, the urchins are limited by otter predation and kelp forests are abundant. Animals examined as part of the study include deep-ocean sea cucumbers, urchins and brittle stars. They grow to an impressive size and pass the time cracking open hard-shelled creatures like crabs and urchins between their fearsome teeth. In the past, the fish and urchins fed on the algae, allowing the coral to grow. Kids also enjoy the tide pool touch tank filled with sea stars, urchins, and horseshoe crabs. Stare into a rockpool, and it's like being a kid again: urchins of every colour feed among weird and wonderful molluscs. Otters mostly feed on invertebrates such as urchins, squid, octopus, crabs, abalone and other mollusks. Without sea otters, urchins overgraze the kelp, eating the base of the plant so that it becomes detached from the sea floor and dies. You can find urchins and starfish on the rocky ledges and brittle stars and edible crabs on the sandy bottom. Birds, fish and mammals feast on the barnacles, snails, urchins and other animals that vary from tiny shore crabs to spectacular giant green anemones. Individuals tend to be specialized in their choice of prey: one otter may consume only urchins and crabs while another will eat mostly fish, all depending on the abilities of the individual otter and what is available in the area. It is the skeletons of these latter creatures and sediments from algae, coral, snails, urchins, and other calcium rich organisms which glom together over hundreds of thousands of years to form reefs on the island fringe. The senior students were keen to observe the invertebrate marine animals, such as starfish, urchins and crustaceans. If the sea otters are not around to eat the urchins, scientists fear the urchins will wipe out the forests. The soft coral is far more spectacular than you expected and the urchins are there in their thousands. Abalone and urchins are two of the most prized and highly priced seafood delicacies worldwide. You will often find species of shrimp living on urchins and starfish in the tropics and, if you look carefully, might also find very small hermit crabs adopting the same behaviour, particularly on starfish. In fact, California purple urchins share more than 7,000 genes with humans, making them closer cousins to us than are fruit flies and worms, animals more commonly used as models in genetics research. 3dialect A hedgehog. 〈主方〉刺猬 Example sentencesExamples The name sea urchin comes from an old English meaning of urchin: hedgehog. Origin Middle English hirchon, urchon ‘hedgehog’, from Old Northern French herichon, based on Latin hericius ‘hedgehog’.
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