urchinn.
/ˈəːtʃɪn/, U.S. /ˈərtʃən/ 1. † c. A goblin or elf. (From the supposition that they occasionally assumed the form of a hedgehog.)
a. = hedgehog n. 1.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > [noun] > order Insectivora > family Erinaceidae (hedgehog)
ilc897
iles pil?c1225
irchepilc1290
irchinc1290
hurcheonc1325
urchina1340
thorn-hog1340
hedgehoga1450
herisson?1590
land-urchin1603
hedge-piga1616
hotchi-witchi1843
porcupine1847
furze-pig1865
gypsies' pig1928
tiggy1938
α.
β. 14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 700 Hic urunacius,..a urchen.c1425 St. Christina x, in Anglia VIII. 123/28 In þe maner of an vrchyn þe lumped body ȝode to þe owne shappe.1556 J. Heywood Spider & Flie iii. 32 To grounde he shranke Like an vrchyn vnder an aple tree.1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. vii. 254 Thou sluggard..Goe learne the Emmets, and the Vrchins art.1624 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 2) ii. iii. vii. 291 As a Tortoise in his shell,..or an Vrchin round,..I decline their fury and am safe.a1657 G. Daniel Idyllia in Poems (1878) IV. v. 98 Stript Porcupine May to an Vrchin, of his wants complaine; Well-thatcht, gainst Winter's Stormes.1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 290 However here are Salmon.., and the Urchin..under the Hedges and Trees of an Orchard.1779 Gentleman's Mag. 350 The poor persecuted creature to which I allude is the Hedge-hog or Urchin.1803 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. I. 387 The Common Hedgehog... Synonyms... Common Hedgehog, Common Urchin.1864 J. C. Atkinson Stanton Grange 218 Sae, I reckon, it is with the urchin.1867 R. W. Emerson May-day & Other Pieces 20 The pebble loosened from the frost Asks of the urchin to be tost.γ. 14.. in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) I. 51 Tak the grees of an urcheon, and the fatte of a bare.c1475 Cath. Angl. 404/2 Vrchion, erecius, erinacius.a1529 J. Skelton Why come ye nat to Courte (?1545) 163 They are..Lyke vrcheons in a stone wall.1896 J. K. Snowden Web of Old Weaver x. 121 We had no more to liven us than an urcheon has in winter-time.δ. 1665–6 Ormskirk Churchwardens' Accts. (Lancs. & Chesh. Hist. Soc.) 3rd Ser. VI. 174 Paid Thos. Mawdsley for one orchant and one kyde [= kite], 00lb. 01s. 06d.1682 in W. S. Banks Walks Yorks. (1871) 43 Paid for 21 ourchants and 7 fylomots, [£]0 5 10.1883 T. Lees Easther's Gloss. Dial. Almondbury & Huddersfield Urchint, a hedgehog.1891 S. O. Addy Suppl. Gloss. Words Sheffield 62 Urchont, a hedgehog.a1340 R. Rolle Psalter ciii. 19 The stone fleyng til vrchuns [L. petra refugium herenacijs].
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Lev. xi. 5 An vrchon, that chewith kude,..is vnclene.
c1400 Rom. Rose 3135 Like sharp vrchouns his here was growe.
1480 W. Caxton Chron. Eng. 53 b Till that his body Stykked as full of arewes as an vrchone is full of prikkes.
a1500 in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) I. 81 A norchon by tho fyre rostyng a greyhownde.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 285/2 Urchone a beest, herysson.
1681 N. Grew Compar. Anat. Stomachs & Guts ii. 8 in Musæum Regalis Societatis The Gulet of an Urchan enters the Stomach towards the middle.
1683 in W. S. Banks Walks Yorks. (1871) 43 To March lad for one urchon, [£]0 0 2.
1763 ‘T. Bobbin’ Toy-shop (new ed.) To Rdr. p. x Od rottle the; whot seys to! has to foryeat'n th' Tealier finding th' Urchon; an th' Rimes!
1876– in Westm., Yks., and Lancs. dialect use ( Eng. Dial. Dict. ).
b. Applied allusively to persons (see quots.).
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the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > one who is unimportant > of little worth
toy1573
puny1579
puisne1592
urchin1593
short-arse1706
rip1781
snip-jack1846
twopence1866
jerk1935
1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 12 But Agrippa was an vrcheon, Copernicus a shrimpe, Cardan a puppy,..Cuiacius a bable to this Termagant.
1594 1st Pt. Raigne Selimus K i Enter Selimus..at one door, and Acomat.., Vizier, and their soldiers at another. Sel. What are the vrchins crept out of their dens, Vnder the conduct of this porcupine?
1632 T. Heywood 2nd Pt. Iron Age sig. B2v Ther[sites]. By the gods Wee haue two meeting soules: be my sweete Vrchin. Syn[on]. I will, And thou shalt bee mine vgly Toade.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > fairy or elf > [noun] > imp, goblin, or hobgoblin
thursec725
puckOE
puckleOE
goblina1350
hurlewaynes kin1399
Hoba1500
bogle?1507
chimera?1521
hobgoblin1530
chyppynutie?1553
bearbug1560
boggard1570
bugbear?c1570
empusa1572
puckerelc1580
puck bug1582
imp1584
urchin1584
fear-babea1586
hob-thrush1590
hodge-poker1598
lar1598
poker1598
bogle-bo1603
mormo1605
foliot1621
mormolukee1624
buggle-boo1625
pug1631
black man1656
feind1659
Tom Poker1673
duende1691
boodie?a1700
worricow1711
bolly1724
Tom Po1744
fleying1811
pooka1824
booger1827
alp1828
boll1847
bogy1857
beastie1867
boogie1880
shag boy1882
1584 R. Scot Discouerie Witchcraft vii. xv. 153 They haue so fraied vs with bull beggers, spirits, witches, vrchens, elues,..that [etc.].
1592 T. Nashe Strange Newes K j b The Fairies and night Vrchins.
1594 T. Nashe Terrors of Night H j b An old wiues tale of diuells and vrchins.
1614 Hawking, etc. 7 in T. Ravenscroft Briefe Disc. By the moone we sport and play;..Trip it, little Vrchins all, Lightly as the little little bee.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) iv. iv. 49 Nan Page (my daughter) and my little sonne..wee'l dresse Like Vrchins . View more context for this quotation
2. transferred.† a. Applied to the porcupine. Obsolete.† c. U.S. = urson n. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > superfamily Hystricomorpha (porcupine or guinea-pig) > [noun] > family Hystricidae (porcupine)
ilc897
urchinc1400
porcupine?a1425
brush-tail porcupine1885
thorn-swine1889
porky1899
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xxxi. 143 Þere ben also vrchounes als grete as wylde swyn here; wee clepen hem Porcz de Spyne.
b. A sea urchin or sea-hedgehog; = echinus n. 1.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Echinodermata > [noun] > subphylum Eleutherozoa > class Echinoidea > member of (sea-urchin)
echinusc1374
urchin fish1566
ruffe1591
sea-hedgehog1598
urchin1601
sea urchin1605
sea-bear1611
sea-chestnut1613
sea-thistle1661
sea-apple1666
sea-egg1666
button-fish1668
sea-button1668
urchin-worm1668
whore's egg1674
sea-shilling1713
echinite1750
echinid1835
pancake1843
echinoid1864
oursin1914
kina1960
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 253 Of the same sort that the Crabs be, are the Vrchins of the sea called Echini.
1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 230 Urchin... The ashes of the shells help sordid ulcers.
1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature II. 381 The violet-coloured urchins, armed with points and spears.
1845 P. H. Gosse Ocean (1849) vi. 277 The irregular movements of the spined urchins.
1853 A. Pratt Chapters Common Things Sea-coast v. 308 The Purple-tipped Urchin (Echinus miliaris).
1853 A. Pratt Chapters Common Things Sea-coast v. 308 Heart urchins, and Fiddle-heart urchins, and Cake urchins; names all expressive of the shape.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > superfamily Hystricomorpha (porcupine or guinea-pig) > [noun] > faimily Erethizontidae > genus Erethizon (urson)
urson1774
cawquaw1775
urchin1796
1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 201 The Urchin, or Urson,..is commonly called Hedgehog or Porcupine, but differs from both those animals.
3. One who is deformed in body; a hunchback. Now dialect.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > deformities of specific parts > [noun] > hump back > person
crouchbackc1491
crook-backa1513
urchin1528
lord1653
crump-backa1661
crump1698
hump1708
humpback1712
hunchback1712
crumple-back1845
bible-back1873
knarl-
1528 Rede me & be nott Wrothe sig. b viiiv I trowe the vrchyn will clyme, To some promocion hastely.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 278 In English a Hedghog, or an vrchine: by which name also we call a man that holdeth his Necke in his bosome.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Urchin,..a Dwarf.
1821 W. Scott Kenilworth I. ix. 239 A queer, shambling, ill-made urchin, who, by his stunted growth, seemed about twelve or thirteen..years old.
1824 Ld. Byron Deformed Transformed i. i Bert. Out, hunchback! Arn. I was born so, mother!.. Bert. Out, urchin, out!
1891 S. O. Addy Suppl. Gloss. Words Sheffield 62 Urchont, a hump~backed person.
4.
a. A pert, mischievous, or roguish youngster; a brat.
ΘΚΠ
society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > roguery, knavery, or rascalry > [noun] > playful or mischievous roguery > young or playful rogue
urchinc1525
rascal1601
limb1625
imp1642
pickle1779
impling1780
rip1781
scamp1808
hempy1818
flibbertigibbet1826
tinker1855
faggot1859
skeezicks1908
c1525 J. Rastell New Commodye Propertes of Women sig. Bi Come hydyr thou lytyll fole let me see the..What lytyll vrchyn hast forgotyn me.
1599 N. Breton Miseries Mavillia in Wks. (1879) II. 37/1 Come on, you urchen, you will never come to good.
1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. ii. iii. 62 I could not tell to what Extremity such a malicious Urchin might have carried his Resentment.
1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) (at cited word) Thou lile urchin thou!
b. poetic. Applied to Cupid.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > love > amorous love > [noun] > god or goddess of love
Cupidc1381
Venusc1412
loves1595
bow-boy1597
love god1598
amorino1612
amoret1613
amourette1651
Eros1671
urchin1709
amoretto1873
1709 M. Prior Venus Mistaken ii Who's blind now Mamma? the Urchin cry'd.
1726 J. Swift Cadenus & Vanessa 23 The Urchin..Took Aim, and shot with all his Strength A Dart.
1799 R. Southey Love Elegies iii. v From you, sweet locks! he wove the subtile line Wherewith the urchin angled for my Heart.
1805 A. Scott Poems 184 Cupid, blind urchin.
5. † b. Applied to a literary production. Obsolete. rare.† c. transferred. An offspring of hell, etc. Obsolete. rare.
a. A little fellow; a boy or youngster; †a child or infant.In frequent use from c1780. Often applied with commiserative force to children poorly, raggedly, or untidily clothed.
ΘΚΠ
the world > people > person > child > [noun]
wenchelc890
childeOE
littleOE
littlingOE
hired-childc1275
smalla1300
brolla1325
innocentc1325
chickc1330
congeonc1330
impc1380
faunt1382
young onec1384
scionc1390
weea1400
birdc1405
chickenc1440
enfaunta1475
small boyc1475
whelp1483
burden1490
little one1509
brat?a1513
younkerkin1528
kitling1541
urchin1556
loneling1579
breed1586
budling1587
pledge?1587
ragazzo1591
simplicity1592
bantling1593
tadpole1594
two-year-old1594
bratcheta1600
lambkin1600
younker1601
dandling1611
buda1616
eyas-musketa1616
dovelinga1618
whelplinga1618
puppet1623
butter printa1625
chit1625
piggy1625
ninnyc1626
youngster1633
fairya1635
lap-child1655
chitterling1675
squeaker1676
cherub1680
kid1690
wean1692
kinchin1699
getlingc1700
totum17..
charity-child1723
small girl1734
poult1739
elfin1748
piggy-wiggy1766
piccaninny1774
suck-thumb18..
teeny1802
olive1803
sprout1813
stumpie1820
sexennarian1821
totty1822
toddle1825
toddles1828
poppet1830
brancher1833
toad1836
toddler1837
ankle-biter1840
yarkera1842
twopenny1844
weeny1844
tottykins1849
toddlekins1852
brattock1858
nipper1859
sprat1860
ninepins1862
angelet1868
tenas man1870
tad1877
tacker1885
chavvy1886
joey1887
toddleskin1890
thumb-sucker1891
littlie1893
peewee1894
tyke1894
che-ild1896
kiddo1896
mother's bairn1896
childling1903
kipper1905
pick1905
small1907
God forbid1909
preadolescent1909
subadolescent1914
toto1914
snookums1919
tweenie1919
problem child1920
squirt1924
trottie1924
tiddler1927
subteen1929
perisher1935
poopsie1937
pre-schooler1937
pre-teen1938
pre-teener1940
juvie1941
sprog1944
pikkie1945
subteenager1947
pre-teenager1948
pint-size1954
saucepan lid1960
rug rat1964
smallie1984
bosom-child-
the world > people > person > child > boy > [noun]
knightc893
knapec1000
knaveOE
knape childc1175
knave-childa1225
groom?c1225
knight-bairnc1275
pagec1300
mana1382
swainc1386
knave-bairna1400
little mana1425
man-childa1438
boy1440
little boya1475
lad1535
boykin1540
tomboya1556
urchin1556
loonc1560
kinchin-co(ve)1567
big boy1572
dandiprat1582
pricket1582
boy child1584
callant1597
suck-egg1609
nacketc1618
custrel1668
hospital-boy1677
whelp1710
laddie1721
charity-boy1723
pam-child1760
chappie1822
bo1825
boyo1835
wagling1837
shirttail boy1840
boysie1846
umfaan1852
nipper1859
yob1859
fellow-my-lad?1860
laddo1870
chokra1875
shegetz1885
spalpeen1891
spadger1899
bug1900
boychick1921
sonny boy1928
sonny1939
okie1943
lightie1946
outjie1961
oke1970
1556 J. Heywood Spider & Flie C ij Will ye have this urchin, of eyght weekes olde? It is a babling brat above all other.
1600 T. Nashe Summers Last Will sig. Eij Learne of him, you deminitiue vrchins, howe to behaue your selues in your vocation.
1648 J. Beaumont Psyche ix. cxlv. 148 As for thy Lord, He term'd him Josephs Brat, The silly Carpenters poor Urcheon.
1683 W. Kennett tr. Erasmus Witt against Wisdom 82 Looking big upon the trembling Urchins.
1790 W. Cowper Let. 10 May (1982) III. 375 He sent an urchin (I do not mean a Hedge-hog,..but a boy commonly so call'd).
1799 R. B. Sheridan Pizarro ii. i The little darling urchin robs me, I doubt, of some portion of thy love, my Cora.
1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II ii. xviii. 70 And well the docile crew that skilful urchin guides.
1839 F. A. Kemble Jrnl. Resid. Georgian Plantation (1863) 11 The tone of insolent superiority assumed by even the gutter urchins over their dusky companions.
1892 R. L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrecker iii. 42 [He] took a fancy to the urchin [and] carried him on with him in his wandering life.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > [noun] > regarded as the result of labour > small or minor
opusculec1530
opuscle1534
urchin1589
opusculum1624
minor1821
parergon1928
1589 J. Lyly Pappe with Hatchet E ij This is the Epistle which he woonders at himselfe, and like an olde Ape hugges the Vrchin so in his conceipt, as [etc.].
1813 H. Smith & J. Smith Horace in London i. xxviii. 89 Then may new Drury's widely yawning pit O'erwhelm thy urchin, and engulph thy muse.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the supernatural > deity > hell > [noun] > inhabitant of
infernal1582
urchin1583
subterranean1773
pandemonian1795
1583 S. Harsnett Serm. Ezek. (1658) 129 How can he but hate him?..the childe of Darkness,..the Urchin of Hel?
1648 J. Beaumont Psyche x. xxix. 158 Unhappy Saturninus how hast thou Prov'd thine own selfe an Urcheon of Damnation!
a. An ugly or uncomely woman; a hag. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > ugliness > [noun] > ugly person > woman
hagc1400
horse-godmother1569
Hecatea1616
urchin1657
Plain Jane1912
scag1938
fuglya1970
mutt1983
minger1992
munter1997
1657 G. Thornley tr. Longus Daphnis & Chloe 203 It is incredible that of such an old Churle, and such an Urchin as his Wife, there should come a child so fair.
ΘΚΠ
the world > people > person > child > girl > [noun]
maiden-childeOE
maidenOE
maidc1275
maid-childc1275
wenchc1290
thernec1300
lassc1325
maidenkinc1330
child-womana1382
girlc1400
pucelle1439
maidkin1440
mawther1440
mop1466
woman-child?1515
bonnea1529
urchina1535
kinchin-mort1567
dandiprat1582
prill1587
sluta1592
little girl1603
maggie1603
tendril1603
squall1607
childa1616
filly1616
vriester1652
miss1668
gilpie1720
lassie1725
laddess1768
jeune fillea1777
bitch1785
girly?1786
gal1795
ladyling1807
missikin1815
colleen1828
girleen1833
snowdrop1833
pinafore1836
chica1843
fillette1847
charity-girl1848
urchiness1852
Mädchen1854
gel1857
pusill1884
backfisch1888
girly-girly1888
cliner1895
tittie1918
weeny1929
bobby-soxer1944
a1535 T. More Dialoge of Comfort (1553) ii. xiiii. sig. H.iiiv What ayleth this gyrle? that eluishe vrchyn weneth I were a deuill I trow.
1768 O. Goldsmith Good Natur'd Man ii. 28 You did indeed dissemble, you urchin you; but where's the girl that won't dissemble for an husband!
1769 O. Goldsmith in C. Lennox Sister Epil. sig. L2v The little urchin smiles, and spreads her lure, And tries to kill ere she's got power to cure.
7. technical. (See later quots.)
ΚΠ
1835 A. Ure Philos. Manuf. 167 By this repeated transfer from one cylinder-card or urchin to another..the filaments become separated and expanded.
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 348 Some cards consist entirely of cylinders, the central main cylinder being surrounded by a series of smaller ones called urchins or squirrels.
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2684/1 Urchin, one of a pair of rapidly revolving small card cylinders, arranged around the periphery of a large card drum.
Compounds
C1.
a. General attributive.
(a) (In sense 1c.)† urchin blast n. Obsolete† urchin show n. Obsolete
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > an omen, sign, portent > [noun] > of evil
warningc1325
portent1562
urchin showa1616
urchin blast1637
menetekel1649
omening1796
mene mene tekel1840
fate1850
1637 J. Milton Comus 29 Helping all urchin blasts, and ill lucke signes That the shrewd medling elfe delights to make.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > an omen, sign, portent > [noun] > of evil
warningc1325
portent1562
urchin showa1616
urchin blast1637
menetekel1649
omening1796
mene mene tekel1840
fate1850
a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) ii. ii. 5 But they'll nor pinch, Fright me with Vrchyn-shewes, pitch me i'th mire [etc.] . View more context for this quotation
(b) (In sense 7.)
urchin card n.
ΚΠ
1851 L. D. B. Gordon in Art Jrnl. Illustr. Catal. p. iv**/2 The large card-drum is generally surmounted by urchin or squirrel cards instead of tops.
urchin cylinder n.
ΚΠ
1835 A. Ure Philos. Manuf. 168 When the fibres have been thus thoroughly teazed out by..urchin cylinders.
(c)
urchin-like adj.
ΚΠ
1708 J. Kersey Dict. Anglo-Britannicum Urchin-like Rind, the outward Husk of the Chesnut.
1855 P. H. Gosse Man. Marine Zool. I. 63 Round depressed urchin-like disks.
urchin -snouted adj.
ΚΠ
1594 W. Shakespeare Venus & Adonis (new ed.) sig. Giiij This foule, grim, and vrchin-snowted Boare.
b. † urchin cockle n. Obsolete (see quot.).† urchin crowfoot n. Obsolete the ranunculus, R. arvensis.† urchin mushroom n. Obsolete† urchin rind n. Obsolete† urchin starfish n. Obsolete
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Siphonida > integro-pallialia > family Cardiadae > member of (cockle)
cockOE
cockle1311
palour1589
urchin cockle1688
pectuncle1748
cuckolda1757
toheroa1873
pipi1895
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 339/1 Concha Echinata,..a Cockle covered or set with pricks. An Urchin Cockle.
ΘΚΠ
the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Ranunculaceae (crowfoot and allies) > [noun] > crowfoot
clovetonguec1325
pilewort?a1425
crowfootc1440
ranunculus1543
rape crowfoot1578
urchin crowfoot1578
water milfoil1578
lodewort1597
reate1655
hunger-weed1792
devil's claw1996
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball 420 White Crowfoote, or Urchin Crowfoote.
urchin cut n. a short style of haircut for women; also as adj., and urchin haircut.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > styles of hair > [adjective] > cut short
shornc1050
polleda1325
ydoddeda1400
rounded?a1439
nottedc1440
gallows-rounded1567
stubbed1627
well-cropped1805
well-shaven1842
bobbed1918
Eton-cropped1925
crew-cropped1938
crew cut1940
urchin cut1951
the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > styles of hair > [noun] > cut or cropped > for women
Eton crop1925
bob1926
windblown bob1933
bubble cut1948
urchin haircut1951
garçon1956
1951 N. Marsh Opening Night iv. 90 I'm a shoulder-length natural ash-blonde and I've had to have an urchin cut and go black.
1958 E. Dundy Dud Avocado i. vii. 132 A lot of rather gorgeous..girls floating around with urchin hair-cuts.
1958 Woman's Own 4 June 9/1 She was long-limbed, slender, her shining hair urchin-cut.
1958 Woman 11 Oct. 32/3 She was small and boyish, with urchin-cut hair.
1979 N. Freeling Widow v. 26 A small girl with an urchin face and an urchin-cut.
urchin fish n. (a) the sea urchin; (b) the porcupine fish or sea-porcupine.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Echinodermata > [noun] > subphylum Eleutherozoa > class Echinoidea > member of (sea-urchin)
echinusc1374
urchin fish1566
ruffe1591
sea-hedgehog1598
urchin1601
sea urchin1605
sea-bear1611
sea-chestnut1613
sea-thistle1661
sea-apple1666
sea-egg1666
button-fish1668
sea-button1668
urchin-worm1668
whore's egg1674
sea-shilling1713
echinite1750
echinid1835
pancake1843
echinoid1864
oursin1914
kina1960
the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Tetraodontiformes (puffers) > [noun] > family Diodontidae (porcupine-fishes) > diodon hystrix (porcupine-fish)
sea-hedgehog1598
porcupine fish1681
sea-porcupine1681
urchin fish1773
porcupine1859
1566 T. Drant tr. Horace Medicinable Morall sig. Gviijv Whence purple coloure flowes..From Micen vrchen fishe.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 343/2 The Globe Star fish..is by some Authors termed the Urchin fish, or Sea Urchin.
1773 Gentleman's Mag. 43 220 The Urchin or Hedgehog Fish.
1863 J. G. Wood Illustr. Nat. Hist. (new ed.) III. 337 The Urchin-Fish or Sea Hedgehog is a good example of the genus Diodon, or Two-toothed fishes.
urchin-form n. the form or form-type of an echinus.
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1878 F. J. Bell & E. R. Lankester tr. C. Gegenbaur Elements Compar. Anat. 198 The decrease in size of the antambulacral surface..will give us the Urchin-form.
urchin lumpfish n.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Scorpaeniformes (scorpion-fish) > [noun] > family Cyclopteridae (lump-fishes) > cyclopterus lumpus (lump-fish)
lump1545
mugle1574
paddle1589
sea-owl1601
snot-fish1655
sea-poult1658
werrell1658
cockpaddle1684
urchin lumpfish1688
bagaty1710
lumpfish1744
sucker1753
suck-fish1753
lump sucker1776
red lump1832
sucking-fish1867
sea-hen1892
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 337 The Urchin, or Hedghog Lump fish, hath its skin set with more sharper and longer pricks.
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the world > plants > particular plants > fungi > [noun] > of unspecified or unidentified type
urchin mushroom?1711
oak leather1724
raven's eye1822
fairy purse1877
?1711 J. Petiver Gazophylacii X. Table 92 Urchin Mushroom:..From its roughness underneath.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > edible nuts or nut-trees > [noun] > chestnut > shell of
burc1330
urchin rind1688
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 85/1 The urchin rind, is the cover of the Chestnut. [Cf. urchin-like.]
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Echinodermata > [noun] > subphylum Eleutherozoa > class Asteroidea > unspecified and miscellaneous types
five-foot1659
rose1668
five-finger1678
sun shellfish1688
urchin starfish1688
sea-toad1710
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 349/2 An Urchin Star-fish; this is a Star-fish of five long and slender Rays.
† †urchin-worm n. Obsolete (see quots).
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Echinodermata > [noun] > subphylum Eleutherozoa > class Echinoidea > member of (sea-urchin)
echinusc1374
urchin fish1566
ruffe1591
sea-hedgehog1598
urchin1601
sea urchin1605
sea-bear1611
sea-chestnut1613
sea-thistle1661
sea-apple1666
sea-egg1666
button-fish1668
sea-button1668
urchin-worm1668
whore's egg1674
sea-shilling1713
echinite1750
echinid1835
pancake1843
echinoid1864
oursin1914
kina1960
1668 W. Charleton Onomasticon Zoicon 53 Echini,..Vrchin-Worms.
C2. Appositive or as adjective, as urchin article, urchin bitch, urchin deity, urchin messenger, urchin prince.
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the world > animals > animal body > [adjective] > small
urchina1535
dwarf1548
animalcular1749
animalculinea1817
a1535 T. More Dialoge of Comfort (1553) iii. xxiv. sig. T.vii I feare me when I here once that vrchin bitche barke, I shal..forgeat altogether.
a1670 J. Hacket Scrinia Reserata (1693) ii. 91 Our Bishop..made himself merry with the Conceit, how easie it was to stride over such Urchin Articles. No man would find leisure to read the whole 36, they are so frivolous.
1818 W. Hazlitt Lect. Eng. Poets (1870) ii. 53 The triumph of Cupid at the mischief he has made is worthy of the malicious urchin deity.
1826 W. Scott Woodstock III. viii. 211 The urchin messenger entered the hall, making several odd bows.
1830 Ld. Lyttelton in Lady L.'s Corr. (1912) 259 The two urchin Princes..in little Hussar dresses.
Derivatives
ˈurchiness n. a female urchin (= sense 4).
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the world > people > person > child > girl > [noun]
maiden-childeOE
maidenOE
maidc1275
maid-childc1275
wenchc1290
thernec1300
lassc1325
maidenkinc1330
child-womana1382
girlc1400
pucelle1439
maidkin1440
mawther1440
mop1466
woman-child?1515
bonnea1529
urchina1535
kinchin-mort1567
dandiprat1582
prill1587
sluta1592
little girl1603
maggie1603
tendril1603
squall1607
childa1616
filly1616
vriester1652
miss1668
gilpie1720
lassie1725
laddess1768
jeune fillea1777
bitch1785
girly?1786
gal1795
ladyling1807
missikin1815
colleen1828
girleen1833
snowdrop1833
pinafore1836
chica1843
fillette1847
charity-girl1848
urchiness1852
Mädchen1854
gel1857
pusill1884
backfisch1888
girly-girly1888
cliner1895
tittie1918
weeny1929
bobby-soxer1944
1852 Househ. Words 5 378/2 Many were the names of urchins and urchinesses..which decked the plaster walls of Broad-Bumble school.
ˈurchinly adj. of the nature of, resembling, an urchin.
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the world > people > person > child > [adjective] > resembling an urchin
urchinly1654
gamine1903
1654 New Brawle 11 Like a feeble Vrchinly Rascall as thou art.
1834 Fraser's Mag. 9 741 Applying a foot to the part of his urchinly person corresponding with that particular department of Sir John Doyle.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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