1. urchin - Noun
2. urchin - Adjective
A hedgehog.
A sea urchin. See Sea urchin.
A mischievous elf supposed sometimes to take the form a hedgehog.
A pert or roguish child; -- now commonly used only of a boy.
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.
Rough; pricking; piercing.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe fisherman fishes as the urchin eats cream buns, from lust. T. H. White
I loathe the urchin's cruelty to the cat, but I will not loathe the urchin. I loathe Hitler's mass-torturing, but not Hitler; and the money-man's heartlessness, but not the man. I love the swallow's flight, and I love the swallow; the urchin's gleam of tenderness, and the urchin. Olaf Stapledon
My father was an urchin that lived in Hell's Kitchen. He was part of a family of nine. I mean, there were times that were better and worse, but mostly, by the time we got to L.A., they'd lost whatever they had. And it was a sad time. And both he and I became truck drivers for different companies. Frank Gehry
It wasn't long before people discovered the final horrors of letting an urchin into Parliament. Bernadette Devlin
II feel for all faiths the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates than the simplest urchin in the streets. Will Durant
Also popular for some purposes have been sea urchins Ettensohn, C.A. and Sweet, H.C. (2000) Patterning the early sea urchin embryo. Source: Internet