Synonyms for urchin
ˈɜr tʃɪnurchin

Princeton's WordNet

1. urchinnoun

   poor and often mischievous city child

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1. urchinnoun

   Synonyms:
   hedge-hog

2. urchinnoun

   Synonyms:
   [Ludicrous.] child, brat

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1. John Berger:

   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.

2. Gary Paulsen:

   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.

3. Atchan Tamaki:

   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.

4. Joe Leask:

   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.