furze-pig

Noun

furze-pig (plural furze-pigs)

1. (West-Country) A hedgehog.
   • Wherever there be a gate, or even an apology for one, consisting of a gapway jammed full of a combination of what are mostly called brambles, the near neighbourhood of the same where it opens, or should open, on the field, is always a good place, and one that may well be taken advantage of, more...1884, William Carnegie, “Winged Vermin”, in Practical Game Preserving, page 457
   • For mowdewart and marmot; for furze-pig / and parmaceti; for feline / and anserine; for Lawrence the tod.1982, Sheenagh Pugh, “I think someone might write an elegy”, in Poetry Wales, volume 17, number 4, archived from the original on 31 Oct 2015