street urchin

English

A term originating in Victorian England.

street urchin (plural street urchins)

(Britain, obsolescent) A child who lives, or spends most of his or her time, in the streets; sometimes a petty thief or pickpocket.
- 1956 [1880], Johanna Spyri, Heidi, translation of original by Eileen Hall, page 84:
  She ran to the door and there beheld the ragged street urchin calmly playing his organ.
- 2020, Raju Kasambe, Indian Grey Hornbill: Unravelling the Secrets, page 94:
  On many occasions, groups of street urchins were seen climbing up large trees for squabs of Rose-ringed Parakeets[.]

child living, or spending most of their time, in the streets

Belarusian: беспрытульнік m (bjesprytulʹnik), беспрытульніца f (bjesprytulʹnica)
Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
Dutch: straatkind (nl) n (gender-neutral), straatjongen (nl) m (boy)
Esperanto: bubo (eo)
Finnish: katulapsi (fi)
French: gamin (fr) m, gamine (fr) f, enfant des rues m or f
Galician: neno da rúa
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: Straßenkind (de) n (gender-neutral), Straßenjunge (de) m (boy)
Greek: χαμίνι (el) n (chamíni), αλάνι (el) n (aláni)
Hungarian: utcagyerek (hu), utcakölyök
Ido: stradobubo
Indonesian: anak jalanan
Italian: ragazzo di strada m, monello (it) m, discolo (it) m, lazzarone (it) m, ladruncolo m, borsaiolo (it) m
Latin: cicarö m
Lingala: shege m, shégué m
Neapolitan: scugnizzo m
Plautdietsch: Gaussenbenjel m
Polish: ulicznik (pl) m
Portuguese: criança de rua f, menino de rua (pt) m, pivete (pt) m
Romanian: copil al străzii m (gender neutral)
Russian: у́личный мальчи́шка m (úličnyj malʹčíška), оборва́нец (ru) m (oborvánec), беспризо́рник (ru) m (besprizórnik), беспризорница (ru) f (besprizornica)
Spanish: niño de la calle m, niño callejero m, gamín (es) m
Tagalog: batang kalye
Turkish: sokak çocuğu (tr), göbel (tr) (colloquial)
Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
Yiddish: גאַסןיונג‎ m (gasnyung), גראָבער-יונג‎ m (grober-yung)