hedgy-boar

English

Alternative forms

  • hedgyboar

Etymology

From hedgy +‎ boar.

Noun

hedgy-boar (plural hedgy-boars)

  1. (Devon and Cornwall, now rare) A hedgehog.
    • c. 1860, John Tabois Tregellas, “California”, in Cornish Tales, page 67:
      Aw loar! the owld gipsies what do live 'pon hedgyboors and that soort of mait, was more betterer off then we wor was regaard to livin'.
    • 1895, Joseph Thomas, “The Quest of the Gwidgy-gwee”, in Randigal Rhymes‎[1], page 15:
      He sought where grew, in aspect lew, / The skedgwith and the scow, / And he routed the sleepy hedgy-boar, / And the lively padgypaow.
    • 2011, Amitav Ghosh, River of Smoke (Ibis Trilogy; 2):
      Billy was a forthy fellow, prickly as a hedgyboar.
  • hedge-boar
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