Sea urchin : noun Un sea urchin (word coming from Provençal, urchin de mar) is an animal echinoderm from the seabed to the test with calcareous plates covered with long prickles.
Having sea urchins in your pockets, in your wallet: being stingy, stingy (see expression below).
Burping sea urchins: being amazed, amazed.
Having swallowed sea urchins: being in the throes of a failure (sports jargon).
To have sea urchins in the morlingue: to be in poverty.
Having your sea urchins: having your period (we also say cubs).
The expression "To have sea urchins in your pocket / purse": To be stingy, stingy.
Before going any further, it is interesting to know that the word sea urchin, which dates from the mid-XNUMXth century, is, according to some, a deformation of bear cub, the well-known animal's young; but for others, it would come from the name in Occitan sea orchin.
Anyway, this echinoderm, also called “sea hedgehog” or “sea chestnut”, is surrounded by a multitude of prickles that it is better to avoid getting stuck in the fingers.
We can therefore imagine that a person who had one or more sea urchins in his pocket or in his wallet would intelligently avoid sticking his hand in it to withdraw some money.
In this constant impediment to access his tickets could only make him pass for miser to anyone who is not informed of the presence of these small animals.