urchin vs nipper

urchin and nipper both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
urchin	Yes	No	No	No
nipper	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, nipper is a hypernym of urchin; that is, nipper is a word with a broader meaning than urchin:

Other hypernyms of urchin include child, fry, kid, minor, nestling, shaver, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke, youngster.

urchin (noun)	nipper (noun)
poor and often mischievous city child	a grasping structure on the limb of a crustacean or other arthropods
	a young person of either sex