Definition of Street urchin

1. Noun. A child who spends most of his time in the streets especially in slum areas.

Exact synonyms: Guttersnipe
Specialized synonyms: Gamine, Gamin, Street Arab, Throwaway
Generic synonyms: Urchin

Definition of Street urchin

1. Noun. (British) A child who lives, or spends most of their time, in the streets; often a petty thief or pickpocket. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Street Urchin

street name
street organ
street party
street person
street pigeon
street racing
street railway
street shoes
street sign
street smart
street smarts
street sweeper
street team
street teams
street theater
street urchin (current term)
streetball
streetballer
streetballers
streetcar
streetcar track
streetcars
streetcorner
streetcorners
streete
streeted
streetfight
streetfighter
streetfighters
streetfighting

Literary usage of Street urchin

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Little Bird Blue by William Lovell Finley, Irene Finley, Robert Bruce Horsfall (1915)
"a young English sparrow that was sick — a neglected street urchin. We put the waif on the back porch with Little Bird Blue. He scanned the newcomer, ..."

2. Little Bird Blue by William Lovell Finley, Irene Finley, Robert Bruce Horsfall (1915)
"a young English sparrow that was sick — a neglected street urchin. We put the waif on the back porch with Little Bird Blue. He scanned the newcomer, ..."

3. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1884)
"His street urchin on canvas remains a street urchin, still, but be has a gentle expression, such as will sometimes be caught on the veriest of vagabonds, ..."

4. Memories of a Musical Career by Clara Kathleen Rogers (1919)
"By the way, I wonder if that epithet has ever been traced to what seems to me its origin, — namely, the familiar protest of the street urchin at the mean ..."

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