hoglet

English

Etymology

hog +‎ -let

Noun

hoglet (plural hoglets)

A baby hedgehog.
- 2008, Michael Leach, Hedgehog‎, 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)

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