🇬🇧🇪🇸 urchin - pilluelo : English Lesson

Meaning of "urchin" ("pilluelo"), detailed definition, and a short video lesson below.

An urchin is a small child who looks scruffy and messy, with dirty clothes or ruffled hair, and often gets into harmless trouble, like splashing in puddles, rolling in mud, or playing tricks, but is usually more playful than truly bad.

Watch and listen to this English flashcard to understand the word in more detail, with an easy example sentence.

The urchin grinned, covered in paint, and said, "I wasn’t messy; I was making art on myself."

The urchin wore his shirt backward, his pants inside out, and announced, "I invented new fashion."

One urchin tried to brush his hair, but the comb took one look and bravely ran away.

The urchin’s socks were so smelly that the dog filed a complaint and moved to the couch.

At the playground, an urchin rolled in the sand until he looked like a breaded chicken nugget.

A small urchin with mud on his cheeks darted between market stalls. The baker saw the urchin reaching for a warm bun. The urchin froze, cheeky grin, sticky fingers. The baker shook his head, wiped the urchin’s face with his apron, and gave the urchin a bun. The urchin beamed and ran away.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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