Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to hedgehog
Participle: hedgehogged
Gerund: hedgehogging
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | hedgehog |
| you | hedgehog |
| he;she;it | hedgehogs |
| we | hedgehog |
| you | hedgehog |
| they | hedgehog |
Perfect
| I | have hedgehogged |
| you | have hedgehogged |
| he;she;it | has hedgehogged |
| we | have hedgehogged |
| you | have hedgehogged |
| they | have hedgehogged |
Past
| I | hedgehogged |
| you | hedgehogged |
| he;she;it | hedgehogged |
| we | hedgehogged |
| you | hedgehogged |
| they | hedgehogged |
Pluperfect
| I | had hedgehogged |
| you | had hedgehogged |
| he;she;it | had hedgehogged |
| we | had hedgehogged |
| you | had hedgehogged |
| they | had hedgehogged |
Future
| I | will hedgehog |
| you | will hedgehog |
| he;she;it | will hedgehog |
| we | will hedgehog |
| you | will hedgehog |
| they | will hedgehog |
Future Perfect
| I | will have hedgehogged |
| you | will have hedgehogged |
| he;she;it | will have hedgehogged |
| we | will have hedgehogged |
| you | will have hedgehogged |
| they | will have hedgehogged |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | hedgehog |
| you | hedgehog |
| he;she;it | hedgehog |
| we | hedgehog |
| you | hedgehog |
| they | hedgehog |
Perfect
| I | have hedgehogged |
| you | have hedgehogged |
| he;she;it | have hedgehogged |
| we | have hedgehogged |
| you | have hedgehogged |
| they | have hedgehogged |
Imperfect
| I | hedgehogged |
| you | hedgehogged |
| he;she;it | hedgehogged |
| we | hedgehogged |
| you | hedgehogged |
| they | hedgehogged |
Pluperfect
| I | had hedgehogged |
| you | had hedgehogged |
| he;she;it | had hedgehogged |
| we | had hedgehogged |
| you | had hedgehogged |
| they | had hedgehogged |
Conditional
Present
| I | would hedgehog |
| you | would hedgehog |
| he;she;it | would hedgehog |
| we | would hedgehog |
| you | would hedgehog |
| they | would hedgehog |
Perfect
| I | would have hedgehogged |
| you | would have hedgehogged |
| he;she;it | would have hedgehogged |
| we | would have hedgehogged |
| you | would have hedgehogged |
| they | would have hedgehogged |
Imperative
| you | hedgehog |
| we | Let's hedgehog |
| you | hedgehog |
Verbs conjugated like 'hedgehog'
abet,
abhor,
abut,
acquit,
admit,
affrap,
allot,
alum,
amel,
amit,
anagram,
anvil,
apparel,
aret,
arret,
assot,
astun,
attrap,
augur,
avel, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'hedgehog'
hedgehop,
hedge-hop,
hedge,
bed-hop,
bedemon,
bedhop,
bedog,
defog,
edge,
gedge,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. From Middle English heyghoge; equivalent to hedge + hog. Eclipsed non-native Middle English yrchoun, irchoun (“hedgehog”), from Old French hirchoun, herichon (“hedgehog”); and displaced earlier Middle English il, from Old English īl, iġil (“hedgehog”).
2. In the philosophical sense, from the 1953 essay The Hedgehog and the Fox by Isaiah Berlin.
3. Compare typologically Korean 고슴도치 (goseumdochi) (<<+ Middle Korean 돝 (twoth, “pig, swine”)).
Sample Sentences
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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. [1966, Theodor Plievier, Stalingrad, page 43:]
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Luettwitz hedgehogged his regiment and held his positions until the rest of the division arrived two days later. [2012, Samuel W. Mitcham Jr., Gene Mueller, Hitler's Commanders, →ISBN:]
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During the night of May 27 the 90th Light Division hedgehogged south of El Adem. [2007, Samuel W. Mitcham Jr., Rommel's Desert War: The Life and Death of the Afrika Korps, →ISBN:]
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All around were styrofoam cups hedgehogged with butts, and the threebar electric heater was encrusted with bits of charcoaled tobacco and frazzled stands of hair where people had stooped down to spark up. [2008, Antonia Quirke, Choking on Marlon Brando, →ISBN:]
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The walls were pockmarked with fragments of stone and hedgehogged with jagged daggers of glass, while in the street below there were sickening splodges on the pavement which a workman was covering with sawdust. [2008, Max Hennessy, Back to Battle, →ISBN, page 300:]
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I think they're from different faculties,” I reply, taking a step back to peruse the table filled with assorted snacks, my hand hovering over the hedgehogged tray of cheese and pineapple cocktail sticks. [2014, George Ryder, Last Action Zero, →ISBN, page 39:]
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You try for his head, but he's hedgehogged round now, elbows beside his ears and you can't get him. [2008, A.L. Kennedy, Day, →ISBN, page 229:]
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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. [2011, Edwin Thomas, The Blighted Cliffs, →ISBN, page 13:]
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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. [2014, Robert Ryan, The Dead Can Wait, →ISBN, page 287:]