hurcheon

English

Etymology

A variant of urchin, from Middle English hirchoun (“hedgehog”), from Old French heriçon (“hedgehog”). Compare Scots hurcheon.

Noun

hurcheon (plural hurcheons) (obsolete, dialectal)

1. (obsolete, dialectal) A hedgehog.

References

• “hurcheon”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English hirchoun, from Old French irechon.

Noun

hurcheon (plural hurcheons)

1. a hedgehog

References

• “hurcheoun, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.