Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A hedgehog.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A young hedgehog.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun UK a
hedgehog .
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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.
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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.
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The likeliest place to pop upon one is near some hedgerow; you know he is called _hedge_hog, or hedgepig.
Chatterbox, 1906 Various 1873
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"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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