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Examples
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Some of the villagers, talking familiarly among themselves, would call it a hedgehog, some would call it a "porkypine"; but it resembled a star as much as anything.
Verner's Pride Henry Wood 1850
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Well, the salt had brought in every porkypine in the country, and they ate all the antlers off of my twenty point buck, ate him down to a spike.
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June 8, 2009 at 7:19 am ummm nope to sawft and nope to floofy. pikchur beever an porkypine bebbeh. *owch*
Iz got a flat stomach in .25 seconds - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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Dont furget teh porkypine stage when teh furs all spikee.
3 stages of bathdom - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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If your heroine is engaging in a mad passionate love affair with a porcupine, and you spell it porkypine, trust me, the mood has been broken.
Miss Snark confesses she is ..yes...compulsive Miss Snark 2005
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I wake up in the nite rolled into a ball like a porkypine.
Dere Mable Love Letters of a Rookie Edward Streeter 1933
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A dollar don't loom no bigger to him than the side of Sugar Loaf Butte, an 'it slips through his fingers as easy as a porkypine could back out of a gunnysack.
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I wish it was needles, and jagged rocks, and quills upon the fretful porkypine, so I do!
Captain January Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 1896
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_I_ didn't believe it at first; and when young Duff was a-going on about the porkypine, I shook him, I did, for a little lying rascal.
Verner's Pride Henry Wood 1850
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You can't put a porkypine in a barn -- listen real carefully -- put a porkypine in a barn, light it on fire and expect to make licorice. "
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