Urchin vs Foundling - What's the difference?
urchin | foundling |
A mischievous child.
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A street kid, a child from a poor neighborhood.
* W. Howitt
(archaic) A hedgehog.
* before 1400 ,
A sea urchin.
A mischievous elf supposed sometimes to take the form a hedgehog.
* Shakespeare
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.
An abandoned child, left by its parent(s), often a baby left at a convent or similar safe place.
* 1749', (Henry Fielding), '' .
* 1776 , (Adam Smith), ,
* 1794 , (Thomas Paine), (Part I) ,
As nouns the difference between urchin and foundling
is that urchin is a mischievous child while foundling is an abandoned child, left by its parent(s), often a baby left at a convent or similar safe place.urchin
English
Noun
(en noun)- And like these fresh green things were the dozens of babies, tots, toddlers, noisy urchins , laughing girls, a whole multitude of children of one family. For Collier Brandt, the father of all this numerous progeny, was a Mormon with four wives.
- And the urchins that stand with their thievish eyes / Forever on watch ran off each with a prize.
- We'll dress [them] like urchins , ouphes, and fairies.
- (Knight)
foundling
English
Noun
- In foundling hospitals, and among the children brought up by parish charities, the mortality is still greater than among those of the common people.
- Moses was a foundling ; Jesus Christ was born in a stable; and Mahomet was a mule driver.