urchin
A mischievous childA mischievous child.
» Have you ever eaten sea urchins?
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7 sensesA 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.
(historical)A neutron-generating device that triggered the nuclear detonation of the earliest plutonium atomic bombs.
(archaic, dialectal)A hedgehog.
(obsolete)A mischievous elf supposed sometimes to take the form of a hedgehog.
Examples
30 sentencesHave you ever eaten sea urchins?
I've never eaten sea urchin. What does it taste like?
Mary is a sea urchin.
Мері — морський їжак. — deniko
deMary ist ein Seeigel. — al_ex_an_der
I don't like those urchins.
Мені не подобаються ці морські їжаки. — deniko
Sea urchin has a slimy texture.
deEin Seeigel hat eine schleimige Textur. — Esperantostern
Translations
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Origin
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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