Meaning

7 senses
  1. A mischievous child.

    Bengel, Lümmel, Lausbube

    прока́зникprokáznik, баловни́кbalovník, озорни́кozorník

    poor and often mischievous city child

  2. A street urchin, a child who lives, or spends most of their time, in the streets.

  3. A sea urchin.

  4. 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.

  5. (historical)A neutron-generating device that triggered the nuclear detonation of the earliest plutonium atomic bombs.

  6. (archaic, dialectal)A hedgehog.

  7. (obsolete)A mischievous elf supposed sometimes to take the form of a hedgehog.

Examples

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  1. Have you ever eaten sea urchins?

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  2. I've never eaten sea urchin. What does it taste like?

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  3. Mary is a sea urchin.

    Мері — морський їжак.

    deMary ist ein Seeigel.

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  4. I don't like those urchins.

    Мені не подобаються ці морські їжаки.

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  5. Sea urchin has a slimy texture.

    deEin Seeigel hat eine schleimige Textur.

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Translations

7 languages
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Origin

From Middle English yrchoun, irchoun (“hedgehog; sea urchin”), from Old Northern French ir

From 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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