urchin

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈɜːtʃɪn/|/ˈɜːtʃən/    美 /ˈɝt͡ʃɪn/|/ˈɝt͡ʃən/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A hedgehog. archaic,dialectal
  2. A mischievous elf supposed sometimes to take the form of a hedgehog. obsolete
    — We'll dress [them] like urchins, ouphes, and fairies.
  3. A mischievous child.
    — And like these fresh green things were the dozens of babies, tots, toddlers, noisy urchins, laughing girls, a whole multitude of children of one family. For Collier Brandt, the father of all this numerous progeny, was a Mormon with four wives.
  4. A street urchin, a child who lives, or spends most of their time, in the streets.
    — And the urchins that stand with their thievish eyes / Forever on watch ran off each with a prize.
  5. A sea urchin.
  6. 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.
    — Here we have a carding-engine, with the drum surmounted with urchin or squirrel cards[…]
  7. A neutron-generating device that triggered the nuclear detonation of the earliest plutonium atomic bombs. historical

词形变化

urchins plural urchon alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

衍生词
cake urchin heart urchin keyhole urchin nano-urchin sea urchin street urchin urchin barren urchiness urchin fish urchinly wheel urchin

词源

From 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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