urchin

FREQ #23945

n. 淘气鬼, 顽童

发音

UK /ˈɜːtʃɪn/
UK /ˈɜːtʃən/
US /ˈɝt͡ʃɪn/
US /ˈɝt͡ʃən/

词形变化

urchins 复数 urchins

别名

urchon

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A mischievous child.

  2. 2.

    A street urchin, a child who lives, or spends most of their time, in the streets.

  3. 3.

    A sea urchin.

  4. 4.

    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.

  5. 5.

    A neutron-generating device that triggered the nuclear detonation of the earliest plutonium atomic bombs.

    历史
  6. 6.

    A hedgehog.

    废旧
  7. 7.

    A mischievous elf supposed sometimes to take the form of a hedgehog.

    废旧

词汇关系

名词

上位词 10

kid child minor fry youngster nipper shaver tyke nestling small fry

下位词 4

guttersnipe ragamuffin street urchin tatterdemalion

相关短语

urchin fish urchin fishes urchin barren urchin barrens sea urchin [医] 海胆 street urchin na. 流浪儿 [网络] 街头顽童 heart urchin [动物]心形海胆 keyhole urchin wheel urchin cake urchin six-holed keyhole 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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