Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A hedgehog.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A young hedgehog.

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  • noun UK a hedgehog.

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Examples

  • I don't know what a notty-pated hedgepig or beslubbering or a canker-blossom are but they really gross me out, so I guess I'd better participate.

    Archive 2007-01-01 2007

  • I don't know what a notty-pated hedgepig or beslubbering or a canker-blossom are but they really gross me out, so I guess I'd better participate.

    Participate in this survey of edubloggers and pass along 2007

  • The likeliest place to pop upon one is near some hedgerow; you know he is called _hedge_hog, or hedgepig.

    Chatterbox, 1906 Various 1873

  • "Ay, sitting under a hedge, with her pot hung up on three sticks and a hedgepig in it," added the younger Boots.

    The Carbonels Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

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