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Discover LudwigThe word 'urchin' is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to a mischievous child or a small, spiny sea creature. For example, you might write, "The street urchins ran through the market, snatching up anything they could get their hands on."
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urchin
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A mischievous child.
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That is pistachio powder and a watercress sauce accompanying the sesame-marinated grilled black cod with sea urchin: nut and pepper against silk and brine.
Help to prepare the hangi (earth oven), learn to harvest and cook Maori specialities such as kina (sea urchin), taste wild vegetables such as the pepper-like horopito and try your hand at baking Maori bread.
The minimum school-leaving age has been raised five times since then and now stands at 16; but panic about feral youths menacing upright citizens and misspending the best years of their lives has not gone away.Today's equivalent of the Victorian street urchin is the "NEET a youth "not in education, employment or training".
Gunkan are small seaweed cups of rice topped with sea urchin or fish eggs.3.3
Berg himself described his heroine as "innocent, but the root of all evil", and his opera traces in harrowing, mesmerising detail her rise and fall from street urchin to society queen to impoverished prostitute and victim of Jack the Ripper.Again, Berg's score is incomparably vivid and varied, intense but full of lyric passion.
Alain and Ordey, pint-sized, urchin brothers, spent their earliest years in their grandfather's compound, surrounded by uncles, aunts and a crowd of cousins.
Making a rich person richer seems much less alchemic than lifting a well-informed urchin out of poverty.Class warriors might argue that "Millionaire" is not really egalitarian at all: since only well-heeled contestants will be minded to risk losing the sort of sums which Ms Keppel evidently was, the already-rich are more likely to succeed.
It grows like a sea urchin: long spines of ability radiate out towards specific needs and desires.
A photograph of a starving urchin was, for instance, captioned: "Every grape you buy helps keep this child hungry".Mr Bardacke is only half-impressed with all this.
A "London curriculum" would ensure no child will leave the classroom without knowing about Bow bells or the true story of Dick Whittington, a 14th-century merchant and lord mayor who (myth says) started off as an urchin with a cat.
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And a simply seared scallop with sweet shrimp, lump crab meat and a sea-urchin sauce ($16) sets a person up nicely for an aged sirloin ($34).
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