"hedgehoggy" meaning in English

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          "text": "‘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.",
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          "text": "So your hedgehoggy readers roll themselves over and over their Bibles, and declare that whatever sticks to their own spines is Scripture.",
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        "(informal) Of the nature of a hedgehog: externally repellent; difficult to get on with."
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          "text": "For half a century, psychotherapy was dominated by hedgehoggy men who considered their style \"normal,\" and women's foxy, emotional, flexible style \"hysterical.\"",
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          "text": "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 rigid",
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        "With a worldview based on a single overarching idea."
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        "(chiefly philosophy) With a worldview based on a single overarching idea."
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