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Completely unrelated, in Norway we call them “crow balls” (kråkeboller)

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I will kill for those spikey baybees

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I read somewhere that male hedgehogs have really long dicks. Long enough that they can jack themselves off with their arms. They make awful pets because they get cum everywhere and it starts smelling real bad real fast.

No idea if this is true or not.

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Username checks out

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I went to fact check this. It’s real but I feel like we’re missing out on something here

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Amazing.

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lol whore’s eggs

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Explains why Frank would have eaten them.

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I’m confused! Doesn’t urchin really relate to children?

Is that a colloquialism or more English-on-drugs?

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In French, oursin (urchin) seems to be the diminutive of ours, which means bear. So oursin means something like “little bear”.

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Thats a street urchin. Strangely, this blog post was one of the first links that came up. It ponders how the name street urchin came to be.

It says

Looking in the OED, I see two possibly relevant definitions. 1c. A goblin or elf. (From the supposition that they occasionally assumed the form of a hedgehog.)… There is also 4a. A pert, mischievous, or roguish youngster; a brat.

Edit: formatting is crazy

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The use of “urchin” to refer to children is separate from its original meaning.

Maybe it became that as a word for something underfoot?

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I like this one the best!

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