English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
A term originating in Victorian England.
street urchin (plural street urchins)
- (British, obsolescent) A child who lives, or spends most of his or her time, in the streets; sometimes a petty thief or pickpocket.
1956 [1880], Johanna Spyri, Heidi, translation of original by Eileen Hall, page 84:She ran to the door and there beheld the ragged street urchin calmly playing his organ.
2020, Raju Kasambe, Indian Grey Hornbill: Unravelling the Secrets, page 94:On many occasions, groups of street urchins were seen climbing up large trees for squabs of Rose-ringed Parakeets[.]
Synonyms[edit]
Translations[edit]
child living, or spending most of their time, in the streets
- Armenian: please add this translation if you can
- Belarusian: беспрытульнік m (bjesprytulʹnik), беспрытульніца f (bjesprytulʹnica)
- Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
- Dutch: straatkind (nl) n (gender-neutral), straatjongen (nl) m (boy)
- Esperanto: bubo (eo)
- Finnish: katulapsi (fi)
- French: gamin (fr) m, gamine (fr) f, enfant des rues m or f
- Galician: neno da rúa
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: Straßenkind (de) n (gender-neutral), Straßenjunge (de) m (boy)
- Greek: χαμίνι (el) n (chamíni), αλάνι (el) n (aláni)
- Hungarian: utcagyerek (hu), utcakölyök
- Ido: stradobubo
- Indonesian: anak jalanan
- Italian: ragazzo di strada m, monello (it) m, discolo (it) m, lazzarone (it) m, ladruncolo m, borsaiolo (it) m
- Latin: cicarö m
- Lingala: shege m, shégué m
- Neapolitan: scugnizzo m
- Ottoman Turkish: رنجل (rencil)
- Plautdietsch: Gaussenbenjel m
- Polish: ulicznik (pl) m
- Portuguese: criança de rua f, menino de rua (pt) m, pivete (pt) m
- Romanian: copil al străzii m (gender neutral)
- Russian: у́личный мальчи́шка m (úličnyj malʹčíška), оборва́нец (ru) m (oborvánec), беспризо́рник (ru) m (besprizórnik), беспризорница (ru) f (besprizornica)
- Spanish: niño de la calle m, niño callejero m, gamín (es) m
- Swedish: gatubarn (sv) n (street child), rännstensunge (sv) c (street urchin)
- Tagalog: batang kalye
- Turkish: sokak çocuğu (tr), göbel (tr) (colloquial)
- Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
- Yiddish: גאַסןיונג m (gasnyung), גראָבער-יונג m (grober-yung)
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