Fromspine +pig, literal translation ofporcupine.
spinepig (pluralspine pigs)
- Porcupine.
1884, James Hogg, Florence Marryat,London society:Hares are fairly common, so also is the fretful porcupine, who, if he finds his way into your kitchen-garden, will play havoc with your pet vegetables. He is accounted delicate eating, this 'spine pig,' as the natives call him; [...]
1953, Randall Jarrell,Poetry and the age:"Spine-swine (the edgehog misnamed hedgehog)," echidna, echinoderm, rhino, thespine pig or porcupine — "everything is battle-dressed"; [...]
2006, Wayne Clifford,The Book of Were:Spine pig,spine pig, say me true, how your flesh befits a you so articulate in joint as to sharpen to your point. I've kept dogs ten thousand days; dodge my fears and play my joys out there in the forest's maze, [...]
