hedgehoggy

Adjective

hedgehoggy (comparative more hedgehoggy, superlative most hedgehoggy)

1. (informal) Of the nature of a hedgehog: externally repellent; difficult to get on with.
   • ‘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.1858, Motley, Corr., volume I, published 1889, page 266
   • So your hedgehoggy readers roll themselves over and over their Bibles, and declare that whatever sticks to their own spines is Scripture.1866, Ruskin, Eth. Dust, published 1883, page 101
2. With a worldview based on a single overarching idea.
   • For half a century, psychotherapy was dominated by hedgehoggy men who considered their style "normal," and women's foxy, emotional, flexible style "hysterical."2000, Charles H. Kramer, Therapeutic Mastery: Becoming a More Creative and Effective Psychotherapist, Zeig Tucker & Theisen Publishers, →ISBN, page 76
   • 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 rigid2010 November 15, Bryan G. Norton, Sustainability: A Philosophy of Adaptive Ecosystem Management, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 233

   Antonyms:

   foxy