urchin
A mischievous childA mischievous child.
» Have you ever eaten sea urchins?
Значение
значений: 7A mischievous child.
Bengel, Lümmel, Lausbube
прока́зникprokáznik, баловни́кbalovník, озорни́кozorník
poor and often mischievous city 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.
(историческое)A neutron-generating device that triggered the nuclear detonation of the earliest plutonium atomic bombs.
(архаичное, диалектное)A hedgehog.
(устаревшее)A mischievous elf supposed sometimes to take the form of a hedgehog.
Примеры
предложений: 30Have you ever eaten sea urchins?
My brother doesn't like the taste of sea urchin.
Моему брату не нравится вкус морских ежей.
I've never eaten sea urchin. What does it taste like?
Sea urchins have spines.
У морских ежей есть колючки.
Sea urchin has a slimy texture.
deEin Seeigel hat eine schleimige Textur.
Переводы
языков: 7По значениям 1
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Происхождение
From Middle English yrchoun, irchoun (“hedgehog; sea urchin”), from Old Northern French irFrom Middle English yrchoun, irchoun (“hedgehog; sea urchin”), from Old Northern French irechon, from Vulgar Latin *ērīciōnem, from Latin ērīcius. Compare modern French hérisson, whence the English doublet herisson.
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