hoglet

English

Etymology

hog +‎ -let

Noun

hoglet (plural hoglets)

1. A baby hedgehog.
   • 2008, Michael Leach, Hedgehog‎^[1], page 8:

     At birth, newborn hoglets are pink, blind, and completely helpless.

   • 2018, Massimo Vacchetta, Antonella Tomaselli, A Handful of Happiness: How a Prickly Creature Softened a Prickly Heart, unnumbered page:

     In nature, hoglets that age would follow their mother out of the nest and learn from her how to procure food by digging in the ground.

   • 2021 August 12, Noelle Mateer, “Looks That Quill: The Dark Side of Hedgehog Instagram”, in Wired:

     If the hog parents develop the disease, you can be pretty sure the hoglets will too—even when they’re raised in different places, fed different diets, cared for by different owners.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:hoglet.

Translations

a baby hedgehog

• Belarusian: важаня́ n (važanjá), важанё n (važanjó), важычаня́ n (važyčanjá), важычанё n (važyčanjó), важычаня́тка n (važyčanjátka)
• French: hérissonneau (fr)
• Macedonian: еже n (eže)
• Polish: jeżątko (pl) n
• Russian: ежо́нок (ru) m (ježónok)
• Ukrainian: їжаченя́ (uk) n (jižačenjá), їжаченя́тко n (jižačenjátko)