hedge-pign.
1. = hedgehog n.
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a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iv. i. 2 Once the Hedge-Pigge whin'd. View more context for this quotation
1889 Pall Mall Gaz. 31 May 2/2 Hedge pigs are egg eaters, and will also dine off young birds.
2. A corrupt form of hedge-pick, -peak, -speak, dialect name of the sloe. See hedge n. Compounds 4.
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