urchin
Plural: urchins
Noun
- A mischievous boy or a spiny sea creature.
- poor and often mischievous city child
- A mischievous child.
- A street urchin, a child who lives, or spends most of their time, in the streets.
- A sea urchin.
- 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.
- A neutron-generating device that triggered the nuclear detonation of the earliest plutonium atomic bombs.
- A hedgehog.
- A mischievous elf supposed sometimes to take the form of a hedgehog.
Examples
- The mischievous URCHIN played a seven-letter word, much to the chagrin of his opponent.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English yrchoun, irchoun (“hedgehog; sea urchin”), from Old Northern French irechon, from Vulgar Latin *ērīciōnem, from Latin ericius. Compare modern French hérisson, whence the English doublet herisson.
Scrabble Score: 11
urchin: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordurchin: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
urchin: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 13
urchin: valid Words With Friends Word