as in monkey
an appealingly mischievous person
we could never resist the little urchin's pleas for candy
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Recent Examples of urchin
The grasslike material offers a home for baby urchins to cling to.
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Evan Bush, NBC News, 19 Sep. 2024
After cutting open another half dozen, my hands were stained red, urchin spines were embedded in my skin and my mouth was dancing.
—Jaime Lowe, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2024
Correspondent Maura Barrett helps researchers place adult-sized urchins in a reef.
—Evan Bush, NBC News, 19 Sep. 2024
But when director Susan Seidelman suggested her for the movie’s eponymous downtown urchin, Madonna’s face wasn’t yet implanted in everyone’s cerebral cortex.
—Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 5 July 2024
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Evan Bush, NBC News, 19 Sep. 2024
After cutting open another half dozen, my hands were stained red, urchin spines were embedded in my skin and my mouth was dancing.
—Jaime Lowe, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2024
Correspondent Maura Barrett helps researchers place adult-sized urchins in a reef.
—Evan Bush, NBC News, 19 Sep. 2024
But when director Susan Seidelman suggested her for the movie’s eponymous downtown urchin, Madonna’s face wasn’t yet implanted in everyone’s cerebral cortex.
—Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 5 July 2024
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“Urchin.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/urchin. Accessed 16 Feb. 2025.
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