英语词汇urchin的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

urchin. Englishmen have often been poor at spelling French words and stumbled badly over the synonym for “hedgehog” that the Normans brought to England, spelling hurcheon a number of ways before finally settling on urchin. They called the hedgehog an urchin for a time and also applied the name urchin to a mischievous child, because the urchin, or hedgehog, was popularly believed to be a mischievous elf in disguise. People eventually stopped using urchin as a synonym for “hedgehog,” but not for an impish child. Neither was the name sea urchin abandoned. This spiny creature was originally named for its resemblance to the urchin, or hedgehog, and once was called the sea hedgehog.

词汇	urchin
词源	urchin. Englishmen have often been poor at spelling French words and stumbled badly over the synonym for “hedgehog” that the Normans brought to England, spelling hurcheon a number of ways before finally settling on urchin. They called the hedgehog an urchin for a time and also applied the name urchin to a mischievous child, because the urchin, or hedgehog, was popularly believed to be a mischievous elf in disguise. People eventually stopped using urchin as a synonym for “hedgehog,” but not for an impish child. Neither was the name sea urchin abandoned. This spiny creature was originally named for its resemblance to the urchin, or hedgehog, and once was called the sea hedgehog.
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