hoglet

H4O1G2L1E1T1

noun

A baby hedgehog.

Scrabble 10

Meanings

nounhoglet (plural hoglets)

plural hoglets

  1. A baby hedgehog.

    At birth, newborn hoglets are pink, blind, and completely helpless.

    2008, Michael Leach, Hedgehog, page 8
    2 more examples

    In nature, hoglets that age would follow their mother out of the nest and learn from her how to procure food by digging in the ground.

    2018, Massimo Vacchetta, Antonella Tomaselli, A Handful of Happiness: How a Prickly Creature Softened a Prickly Heart, unnumbered page

    If the hog parents develop the disease, you can be pretty sure the hoglets will too—even when they’re raised in different places, fed different diets, cared for by different owners.

    2021 August 12, Noelle Mateer, “Looks That Quill: The Dark Side of Hedgehog Instagram”, in Wired

Origin

Translations

Esperanto erinacido
  • erinacidoa baby hedgehog
French hérissonneau, choupisson
  • hérissonneaua baby hedgehog
  • choupissona baby hedgehog
Polish jeżątko
  • jeżątkoa baby hedgehog
Russian ежо́нок
  • ежо́нок (ježónok)a baby hedgehog
Ukrainian їжаченя́, їжаченя́тко
  • їжаченя́ (jižačenjá)a baby hedgehog
  • їжаченя́тко (jižačenjátko)a baby hedgehog
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Chicago

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