Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Belonging to the hedgehog family; resembling a hedgehog.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Of the Hedgehog family; like, or characteristic of, a hedgehog.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, pertaining to, or resembling a
hedgehog .
Etymologies
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And while she knows a lot of big words like erinaceous, she's also very good at simplifying them: "Serendipity is when you find things you weren't looking for because finding what you are looking for is so damned difficult."
Archive 2008-10-01 vonjobi 2008
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And while she knows a lot of big words like erinaceous, she's also very good at simplifying them: "Serendipity is when you find things you weren't looking for because finding what you are looking for is so damned difficult."
Redefining the Dictionary vonjobi 2008
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Where to start ... the first thing I saw that I really wanted (and of course it was sold out) were these hedgehog notecards (so erinaceous!) from Papered Together.
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Where to start ... the first thing I saw that I really wanted (and of course it was sold out) were these hedgehog notecards (so erinaceous!) from Papered Together.
September 2007 2007
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We've already showed you how easy searching Google's dictionary is: just type, for example, define erinaceous to get a straight-out-of-the-dictionary definition for "erinacious".
Gizmodo Whitson Gordon 2011
jrome commented on the word erinaceous
Erin McKean's favorite word. I myself prefer "hedgehoggy."
March 14, 2007
frindley commented on the word erinaceous
A parallel here with phascolomian and wombastic.
March 30, 2008
sionnach commented on the word erinaceous
I'd go with tiggy-winkly. Or, since another term for hedgehog is the nicely palindromic gipsy's pig, possibly tziganoporcine. Here is a video of Erin, speaking at that Monterey conference for bigwigs:
Erin McKean on redefining the dictionary
July 22, 2008
gangerh commented on the word erinaceous
Wordplaywise, what a splendidly apt adoption, erinmcknaceous!
Recalling The Wordie Banana Song.
May 27, 2015
qms commented on the word erinaceous
Though cool at work and perspicacious
Our Erin provoked turns hellacious.
Spammers learn quickly
The lady is prickly.
Be warned by the page on erinaceous.
May 27, 2015
BamboozlePizzazz commented on the word erinaceous
Ah, I finally see why it's Erin McKean's favorite word. Erin-aceous. That was way too obvious, wasn't it?
August 23, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word erinaceous
Lucky! Such a cute word, too.
August 23, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word erinaceous
Erin is the perfect name for a pet hedgehog.
August 23, 2018