urchin

«urchin» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: scruffy child — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic word

modern equivalent

scruffy child

part of speech

noun

meaning for a pupil

A poor or mischievous child, or in the first sentence a hedgehog. tree →

how it differs from today

Today "urchin" usually means a sea urchin. The sentences use the old sense of a poor or mischievous child, and in the first sentence a hedgehog.

examples

• "In the fourth glass is neither herb, bird, nor urchin. (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) tree →
• “They say he is a mischief-maker, a tramp, a street urchin--” (The Adventures of Pinocchio) tree →
• One day two street-urchins were playing and wading in the gutter, picking up old nails, pennies, and such things. (The Yellow Fairy Book) tree →

primary record

urchin

tests

rate: word (≥3 uses, never in EWT or ≥10× EWT, Wiktionary: first sense archaic); corpora 8 (Torah 0, tales 8, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.9 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary archaic (first sense)

In the corpora

• Even urchins despised me; if I arise, they speak against me.
• Sea urchins are covered with movable spines that point towards a threat, and their mouth underneath has five teeth called Aristotle's lantern.
• Sea otters, sea urchins and kelp are another trophic cascade.
• Sea otters protect kelp forests by eating the sea urchins that eat kelp.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «urchin» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.