hedgehog
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Is hedgehog a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (US) Any of several spiny mammals, such as the porcupine, that are similar to the hedgehog.US
2. (military) Ellipsis of Czech hedgehog (“an antitank obstacle constructed from three steel rails”).Examples: "Ukrainian civilians have been DIY-ing hedgehogs, welding two bars or beams at an angle to make a cross and then adding a third to ensure it holds its shape even if it's knocked over."abbreviationalt-ofellipsis
3. (informal, military, historical) A spigot mortar-type of depth charge weapon from World War II that simultaneously fires a number of explosives into the water to create a pattern of underwater explosions intended to attack submerged submarines.historicalinformal
4. (Australia) A type of chocolate cake (or slice), somewhat similar to an American brownie.Examples: "2005, Paul Mitchell, The Favourite, Frank Moorhouse, The Best Australian Stories 2005, page 145, There are hedgehogs with sultanas as well as breadcrumbs, carrot cakes and fruitcakes and banana walnut loaves."; "I am so flustered that I order a vanilla slice instead of hedgehog."; "His wife had made a hedgehog cake and he offered some but Murphy refused – his mouth was so dry with terror he couldn′t swallow."Australia
5. (differential geometry) A type of plane curve; see Hedgehog (geometry).
6. (chiefly philosophy) Someone who has one big overarching personal philosophy or worldview.Examples: "Austin was patiently and painstakingly concerned with truth within limitations. He was a hedgehog, not a fox."; "Dewey was a hedgehog rather than a fox; he spent his life trying to articulate and restate a single vision, and in the writings of his third decade he already exhibits the tension I have claimed to find in the later writings."Antonyms: fox
verb (English)
1. (military) To make use of a hedgehog barricade as a defensive maneuver.Examples: "Hedgehogging means — let us call a spade a spade — that we're were encircled: It's something that has been forced upon us, a predicament from which we ought to try to escape as fast as possible."; "Luettwitz hedgehogged his regiment and held his positions until the rest of the division arrived two days later."; "During the night of May 27 the 90th Light Division hedgehogged south of El Adem."
2. (ambitransitive) To curl up into a defensive ball.Examples: "You try for his head, but he's hedgehogged round now, elbows beside his ears and you can't get him."; "I stayed hedgehogged in my ball, listening for movement and trying to ignore the cramp in my legs, the ache in my gut and — encore — the throbbing in my temples."; "The dead man was lying on a pile of the blankets, curled up, his hands interlocked behind his head, knees drawn up to his chest. Hedgehogged, just like the others."ambitransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary