hedgy-boar

plural hedgy-boars · alternative hedgyboar

1. CornwallDevonarchaicA hedgehog.

   Billy was a forthy fellow, prickly as a hedgyboar.

   2011, Amitav Ghosh, River of Smoke (Ibis Trilogy; 2)

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   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'.

   c. 1860, John Tabois Tregellas, “California”, in Cornish Tales, page 67

   He sought where grew, in aspect lew, / The skedgwith and the scow, / And he routed the sleepy hedgy-boar, / And the lively padgypaow.

   1895, Joseph Thomas, “The Quest of the Gwidgy-gwee”, in Randigal Rhymes, page 15