urchin : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: urchin	by the DICT Development Group
5 results for urchin
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
urchin n poor and often mischievous city child
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Urchin \Ur"chin\, a. Rough; pricking; piercing. [R.] [bd]Helping all urchin blasts.[b8] --Milton.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Urchin \Ur"chin\, n. [OE. urchon, irchon, a hedgehog, OF. ire[cced]on, eri[cced]on, heri[?]on, herichon, F. h[82]risson, a derivative fr. L. ericius, from er a hedgehog, for her; akin to Gr. [?]. Cf. {Herisson}.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) A hedgehog. 2. (Zo[94]l.) A sea urchin. See {Sea urchin}. 3. A mischievous elf supposed sometimes to take the form a hedgehog. [bd]We 'll dress [them] like urchins, ouphes, and fairies.[b8] --Shak. 4. A pert or roguish child; -- now commonly used only of a boy. And the urchins that stand with their thievish eyes Forever on watch ran off each with a prize. --W. Howitt. You did indeed dissemble, you urchin you; but where's the girl that won't dissemble for an husband? --Goldsmith. 5. 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. --Knight. {Urchin fish} (Zo[94]l.), a diodon.
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
urchin n. See {munchkin}.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
urchin See {munchkin}. [{Jargon File}]