urchin

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(Anglès)

A mischievous child.
A street urchin, a child who lives, or spends most of their time, in the streets.
A sea urchin.
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.
(historical) A neutron-generating device that triggered the nuclear detonation of the earliest plutonium atomic bombs.
(obsolete) A hedgehog.
(obsolete) A mischievous elf supposed sometimes to take the form of a hedgehog.

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/ˈɜːtʃɪn/

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In summary

From Middle English yrchoun, irchoun (“hedgehog; sea urchin”), from Old Northern French irechon, from Vulgar Latin *ērīciōnem, from Latin ericius. Compare modern French hérisson, whence the English doublet herisson.