hedgehoggy

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Of the nature of a hedgehog

   Of the nature of a hedgehog: externally repellent; difficult to get on with.

   • ‘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.
   • So your hedgehoggy readers roll themselves over and over their Bibles, and declare that whatever sticks to their own spines is Scripture.
   • Get near some of those dear hedgehoggy brethren, and go and make a pillow of them.
2. 2

   With a worldview based on a single overarching idea.

   • For half a century, psychotherapy was dominated by hedgehoggy men who considered their style "normal," and women's foxy, emotional, flexible style "hysterical."
   • The wary reader will at this point justifiably ask whether an endorsement of Hardin's model may commit us to the hedgehoggy, unidimensional thinking of apocalyptic ecologists and their IPAT equation, a position we found too rigid

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