urchin
About 0.72 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun A hedgehog.
- noun A mischievous elf supposed sometimes to take the form of a hedgehog.
- noun A mischievous child.
- noun A street urchin, a child who lives, or spends most of their time, in the streets.
- noun A sea urchin.
- noun 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.
- noun A neutron-generating device that triggered the nuclear detonation of the earliest plutonium atomic bombs.
Similar words
imp gall gamin tad scamp street urchin chit kinchin ragamuffin rogue
Often followed by
eggs egg embryos and embryo who sperm in of
Word family
urchins
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