hedgehogginess
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From hedgehoggy + -ness.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]hedgehogginess (uncountable)
- Hedgehoggy behaviour or character; disagreeability; prickliness.
- 1858, Motley, Corr., volume I, published 1889, page 266:
- ‘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.
Translations
[edit]hedgehoggy behaviour or character
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Further reading
[edit]- James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928), “He·dgehogginess”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume V (H–K), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 189, column 1.