urchin

noun

ˈər-chən How to pronounce urchin (audio)
Definition of urchinnext
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 possibilities suggested by the compelling title are only hinted at when Jason glares at a group of street urchins. — Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2026 Culinary is a focus of Shiki-Shima, with travelers on the 3-night route introduced to sea urchin fresh from the sea, Japanese tea culture, and sushi using fish from Niigata. — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 8 Sep. 2026 Johns began his climb to the top of the hair-color pyramid as a part-Italian, part-Yugoslavian, part-French urchin in the Pittsburgh projects. — Vanessa Friedman, Vogue, 1 Sep. 2026 Many kelp forests on the West Coast have been stripped bare by sea urchins. — John Ryan, NPR, 16 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for urchin
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  1. monkey
  2. devil
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  • Silicon Valley has given the world the Firefox Fox, now-defunct Gateway cows, the former Twitter bird, GitHub’s octopus, Mailchimp’s monkey and Hootsuite’s owl.
    — Ankolika De, The Conversation, 5 Nov. 2026
  • The monkey head was inside a wooden box that was wrapped in towels.
    — Meena Thiruvengadam, Travel + Leisure, 5 Nov. 2026
Definition of monkey
Noun
  • The guitars shred our ears, the wall opens up, and a pair of monsters slinks into the room — a red devil, a hunchbacked demon with a black snout.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 3 Nov. 2026
  • In 1974 the fantasy role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons first appeared, and later editions featured such character types as devils and demons.
    — Jordana Rosenfeld, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of devil

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“Urchin.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/urchin. Accessed 8 Nov. 2026.

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