Urchin vs Homeless - What's the difference?
urchin | homeless |
A mischievous child.
*
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.
Lacking a permanent place of residence.
As a noun urchin
is a mischievous child.As an adjective homeless is
lacking a permanent place of residence.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)
homeless
English
Adjective
(-)- Whenever I pass the park, I see the homeless people sleeping on the benches.