Thesaurus: urchin

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1. n. A hedgehog.
2. n. A sea urchin. See Sea urchin.
3. n. A mischievous elf supposed sometimes to take the form a hedgehog.
4. n. A pert or roguish child; -- now commonly used only of a boy.
5. 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.
6. a. Rough; pricking; piercing.
7. n. poor and often mischievous city child
8. n:100 n. poor and often mischievous city child