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/ˈhɛd͡ʒhɒɡi/ · adjective
(informal) Of the nature of a hedgehog: externally repellent; difficult to get on with..
‘Why is it that we English, when we meet abroad, are so very friendly, and when we reappear in London are so very hedgyhoggy?’ I told her that the reason why there was no hedgehogginess on this occasion was because I was not an Englishman.
So your hedgehoggy readers roll themselves over and over their Bibles, and declare that whatever sticks to their own spines is Scripture.
Get near some of those dear hedgehoggy brethren, and go and make a pillow of them.
For half a century, psychotherapy was dominated by hedgehoggy men who considered their style "normal," and women's foxy, emotional, flexible style "hysterical."
The wary reader will at this point justifiably ask whether an endorsement of Hardin's model may commit us to the hedgehoggy, unidimensional thinking of apocalyptic ecologists and their IPAT equation, a position we found too rigid
Use hedgehoggy when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Hedgehoggy means (informal) Of the nature of a hedgehog: externally repellent; difficult to get on with..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
Possible antonyms include foxy.
‘Why is it that we English, when we meet abroad, are so very friendly, and when we reappear in London are so very hedgyhoggy?’ I told her that the reason why there was no hedgehogginess on this occasion was because I was not an Englishman.
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