hedgehoggy
/ˈhɛd͡ʒhɒɡi/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
With a worldview based on a single overarching idea.
Example Sentences
- "‘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."
- "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"
Etymology
From hedgehog + -y.
Word Breakdown
Usage
Inflected Forms
more hedgehoggy (comparative)
most hedgehoggy (superlative)