hedgy-boar

English

A hedgy-boar.

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.

Related terms

• hedge-boar