See Chinese hedgehog in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "Chinese hedgehogs",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "Chinese hedgehog (plural Chinese hedgehogs)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"glosses": [
"A species of hedgehog, Erinaceus amurensis, native to eastern China, Russia, Manchuria, and the Korean Peninsula."
],
"id": "en-Chinese_hedgehog-en-noun-XSYfZsP-",
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) A species of hedgehog, Erinaceus amurensis, native to eastern China, Russia, Manchuria, and the Korean Peninsula."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "25 75",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "28 72",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "27 73",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
40,
57
]
],
"ref": "1898, ‘Jacobus X’, Untrodden Fields of Anthropology, volume I, Paris: Charles Carrington, page 97:",
"text": "In the first place let us describe the “Chinese hedge-hog”. This is a wreath of fine soft feathers, with their quills solidly fastened by silver wire to a ring of the same metal, made in various sizes, and sufficiently large to slip over the gland, when the penis is not in erection, and small enough to be stopped by the ring of the gland when the penis is erect. This machine sensibly increases the size of the penis, aud [sic] it will be easily understood that the friction of the feathers against the mucous surface of the vagina produces sensations of a peculiar effect.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
25,
42
]
],
"ref": "1904, Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex: Analysis of the Sexual Impulse, Philadelphia: F.A. Davis, page 84:",
"text": "Somewhat similar is the “Chinese hedge-hog,” a wreath of fine soft feathers with the quills solidly fastened by silver wire to a ring of the same metal, which is slipped over the glans.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
42,
49
],
[
51,
60
]
],
"ref": "1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 215:",
"text": "Various lewd contrivances, among them the Chinese ‘hedge-hog,’ ovoid objects, and similar apparatus have all been perversely used as amatory stimulants.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A type of sexual apparatus consisting of a ring and feathers, attached to the penis before sexual intercourse."
],
"id": "en-Chinese_hedgehog-en-noun-xFV1m-82",
"links": [
[
"sexual",
"sexual"
],
[
"apparatus",
"apparatus"
],
[
"feather",
"feather"
],
[
"penis",
"penis"
],
[
"intercourse",
"intercourse"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) A type of sexual apparatus consisting of a ring and feathers, attached to the penis before sexual intercourse."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete"
]
}
],
"word": "Chinese hedgehog"
}
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English nouns",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"forms": [
{
"form": "Chinese hedgehogs",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "Chinese hedgehog (plural Chinese hedgehogs)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with obsolete senses",
"Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)"
],
"glosses": [
"A species of hedgehog, Erinaceus amurensis, native to eastern China, Russia, Manchuria, and the Korean Peninsula."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) A species of hedgehog, Erinaceus amurensis, native to eastern China, Russia, Manchuria, and the Korean Peninsula."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with obsolete senses",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
40,
57
]
],
"ref": "1898, ‘Jacobus X’, Untrodden Fields of Anthropology, volume I, Paris: Charles Carrington, page 97:",
"text": "In the first place let us describe the “Chinese hedge-hog”. This is a wreath of fine soft feathers, with their quills solidly fastened by silver wire to a ring of the same metal, made in various sizes, and sufficiently large to slip over the gland, when the penis is not in erection, and small enough to be stopped by the ring of the gland when the penis is erect. This machine sensibly increases the size of the penis, aud [sic] it will be easily understood that the friction of the feathers against the mucous surface of the vagina produces sensations of a peculiar effect.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
25,
42
]
],
"ref": "1904, Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex: Analysis of the Sexual Impulse, Philadelphia: F.A. Davis, page 84:",
"text": "Somewhat similar is the “Chinese hedge-hog,” a wreath of fine soft feathers with the quills solidly fastened by silver wire to a ring of the same metal, which is slipped over the glans.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
42,
49
],
[
51,
60
]
],
"ref": "1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 215:",
"text": "Various lewd contrivances, among them the Chinese ‘hedge-hog,’ ovoid objects, and similar apparatus have all been perversely used as amatory stimulants.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A type of sexual apparatus consisting of a ring and feathers, attached to the penis before sexual intercourse."
],
"links": [
[
"sexual",
"sexual"
],
[
"apparatus",
"apparatus"
],
[
"feather",
"feather"
],
[
"penis",
"penis"
],
[
"intercourse",
"intercourse"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) A type of sexual apparatus consisting of a ring and feathers, attached to the penis before sexual intercourse."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete"
]
}
],
"word": "Chinese hedgehog"
}
Download raw JSONL data for Chinese hedgehog meaning in English (2.8kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-09-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (ccec6f1 and 4deed51). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.