hedgehog
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- noun
- /ˈhɛdʒhɔg/
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- Once he woke to hear a hedgehog puffing and snuffling near his feet.
- like a hedgehog
- hedgehog skin
As night falls, owls, bats, and hedgehogs come out to hunt.
- As night falls, owls, bats, and hedgehogs come out to hunt.
- So when I grabbed it, it felt like a hedgehog, prickly.
- An adult hedgehog will get serious, serious sickness and diarrhoea, but a baby hedgehog will die.
- Of course, fox and hedgehog can coexist peacefully within one and the same person.
Examples
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A European hedgehog would be brown all over without any white, but they're both delicious.
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He's just an old hedgehog!
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She also has this hedgehog, which she really loves as well.
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So, Todd, how does one get into the hedgehog business anyway?
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Oh, look, there's Mr. Hedgehog.
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A dirty little hedgehog eating berries and struggling to survive?
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As night falls, owls, bats, and hedgehogs come out to hunt.
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Under the high hedge, a hedgehog rolled itself into a prickly ball at Oscar's approach.
Fiction book (1991) -
There's a hedgehog in this garden who's unusually friendly and relaxed.
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As night falls, hedgehogs come out to forage for insects and fruit.
Synonyms
A group of small animals with sharp spines, like European hedgehogs
Compounds
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Hedgehog comes from old parts hedge and hog, meaning 'hedge' and 'hog'. People called it this because it lives near hedges and its pointy nose looked a bit like a pig's, so the name fits the small spiny animal.