urchin

And like these fresh green things were the dozens of babies, tots, toddlers, noisy urchins, laughing girls, a whole multitude of children of one family. For Collier Brandt, the father of all this numerous progeny, was a Mormon with four wives.

And the urchins that stand with their thievish eyes / Forever on watch ran off each with a prize.

Here we have a carding-engine, with the drum surmounted with urchin or squirrel cards[…]

We'll dress [them] like urchins, ouphes, and fairies.