Urchin
Urchin noun - An appealingly mischievous person.
Youth
Youth noun - A male person who has not yet reached adulthood.
Usage example: a big, strapping youth who, even at his relatively young age, knew the meaning of hard work
Urchin and youth are semantically related in child topic. Sometimes you can use "Urchin" instead a noun "Youth".
Nearby Words: youthful, youthfully
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How words are described
Both words in one sentence
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Jose from Waterworks was a Street Urchin in his youth, until he met a thug named Tubs and subsequently had a pretty good life serving as his lackey.
Source: Street Urchin -
This is especially true for Porthos, since it's now canon that his mother was a former slave from Africa and that he was a street urchin in his youth.
Source: Series / The Musketeers - Oracular Urchin: Fairly common for Demodian Diviners, as they are found and trained from youth.
Source: Literature / The Second Gate
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Youth and Urchin. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/urchin/youth
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