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Homeless youth are often called street kids, or urchins; the definition of street children is contested, but many practitioners and policymakers use UNICEF's concept of boys and girls, aged under 18 years, for whom "the street" (including unoccupied dwellings and wasteland) has become home and/or their source of livelihood, and who are ...
Urchin or urcheon is the Middle English term for "hedgehog". It may refer to: Common meanings. Street children, homeless children; Sea urchins, spiny sea creatures;
As such, the term is similar to a ragamuffin or street urchin, although the main distinction is volitional: a runaway youth might live on the streets, but would not properly be called a waif as the departure from one's home was an exercise of free will.
Intended to be highly insulting when shouted at English women in the street. Muck (Alaska, U.S.) an offensive term used to refer to Alaska Natives, due to the prominence of the "uck" sound in Native languages. Sometimes called "Muck-Luk". Muck Savage (Ireland) Similar to the term culchie, denotes that person is from rural Ireland Mud Person
In French, the word Gavroche has come to mean "street urchin" and "mischievous child". There is an organization that aids the homeless in Varna, Bulgaria, named the Gavroche Association. [11] There is a French-language magazine about Thailand named Gavroche. [12] Bulgarian poet Hristo Smirnenski wrote a poem called The Brothers of Gavroche.
Thirty years after making her movie debut as a teenager in 1994’s Heavenly Creatures, Kate Winslet is reflecting on what she calls her “unlikely” rise to fame. “I was kind of a little ...
Mario Borrelli (Naples, 19 September 1922 – Oxford, 13 February 2007) was a Neapolitan priest, sociologist and educationist.. In the 1950s he established a home for the street children of Naples which later evolved into an international network for social support, called Casa dello scugnizzo (House of the Urchins).
For marine scientists, it was deja vu: Another die-off swept through the region in the 1980s and slashed sea urchin populations by around 98%. Last year, sea urchins in the Caribbean started ...