A variant ofurchin, fromMiddle Englishhirchoun(“hedgehog”), fromOld Frenchheriçon(“hedgehog”). CompareScotshurcheon.

hurcheon (pluralhurcheons)(obsolete, dialectal)

1. (obsolete, dialectal) Ahedgehog.

• “hurcheon”, inMerriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

FromMiddle Englishhirchoun, fromOld Frenchirechon.

hurcheon (pluralhurcheons)

1. ahedgehog

• “hurcheoun,n.”, inThe Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh:Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present,→OCLC, reproduced fromWilliam A[lexander] Craigie,A[dam] J[ack] Aitken[et al.], editors,A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire:Oxford University Press, 1931–2002,→OCLC.

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