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Synonyms for urchin
ˈɜr tʃɪnurchin
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Princeton's WordNet
urchinnoun
poor and often mischievous city child
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Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn't changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
The lobster fishermen kept asking me if there was a market for sea urchin because they were getting a lot of them in the traps.
We started out diving for 25 cents an urchin. When I got 35 cents a pound, I thought I was going to get rich. Then, it hit a dollar a pound and we all celebrated -- and then it hit $2 a pound.
And it became a sanctuary for me, the librarian -- she watched me for a while. I was kind of this urchin, you know, a street urchin. Then she finally said, you want something ? I said, nah I'm OK. And she gave me a card and -- hard to talk about it. It was a card with my name on it. And, God, nobody had given me anything like that. Nobody gave me anything.
Translations for urchin
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- Bengel, IgelGerman
- αλητάκι, διαβολάκι, παλιόπαιδοGreek
- gamina, erizo, golfillo, gamínSpanish
- خارپشتPersian
- gamine, hérisson, gamin, garnementFrench
- sündisznó, lurkó, csibész, utcagyerekHungarian
- peste, monello, birichino, riccioItalian
- egel, straatjongen, bengelDutch
- moleque, pivetePortuguese
- ariciRomanian
- ёж, проказник, беспризорник, оборванец, баловник, озорникRussian
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