Synonyms:
urchin
Meaning: poor and often mischievous city child
Usage examples
A little urchin would hang to his pony's long tail, while the latter, with only his head above water, glided sportively along.
Weena, who had been rolling a sea urchin down the sloping glass of a case, presently came, as I stared about me, and very quietly took my hand and stood beside me.
I recollect also that, after toiling and watching and creeping about for the greater part of a day, with scarcely any success in spite of all our admirable apparatus, a lubberly country urchin came down from the hills with a rod made from a branch of a tree, a few yards of twine, and, as Heaven shall help me!