The difference between Imp and Urchin

When used as nouns, imp means a young shoot of a plant, tree etc, whereas urchin means a mischievous child.


Imp is also verb with the meaning: to plant or engraft.

check bellow for the other definitions of Imp and Urchin

  1. Imp as a noun (obsolete):

    A young shoot of a plant, tree etc.

  2. Imp as a noun (obsolete):

    A scion, offspring; a child.

  3. Imp as a noun:

    A young or inferior devil; a malevolent supernatural creature, similar to a demon but smaller and less powerful.

  4. Imp as a noun:

    A mischievous child.

  5. Imp as a noun (UK, dialect, obsolete):

    Something added to, or united with, another, to lengthen it out or repair it, such as an addition to a beehive; a feather inserted in a broken wing of a bird; or a length of twisted hair in a fishing line.

  6. Imp as a noun:

    A baby Tasmanian devil.

  1. Imp as a verb (obsolete):

    To plant or engraft.

  2. Imp as a verb (archaic):

    To graft, implant; to set or fix.

  3. Imp as a verb (falconry):

    To engraft (feathers) into a bird's wing.

  4. Imp as a verb:

    To eke out, strengthen, enlarge.

  1. Urchin as a noun:

    A mischievous child.

  2. Urchin as a noun:

    A street urchin, a child who lives, or spends most of their time, in the streets.

  3. Urchin as a noun (archaic):

    A hedgehog.

  4. Urchin as a noun:

    A sea urchin.

  5. Urchin as a noun:

    A mischievous elf supposed sometimes to take the form of a hedgehog.

  6. Urchin as a noun:

    One of a pair in a series of small card cylinders arranged around a carding drum; so called from its fancied resemblance to the hedgehog.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Knight"

  7. Urchin as a noun (historical):

    A neutron-generating device that triggered the nuclear detonation of the earliest plutonium atomic bombs.

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