Meaning of hedgehoggy | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Of the nature of a hedgehog: externally repellent; difficult to get on with.
   informal
2. With a worldview based on a single overarching idea.

Examples

“‘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”

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