I was just talking with a friend of mine from Suriname about this blog, and he mentioned that Dutch is his native language. He has confirmed for us that stekelvarken does, in fact, mean porcupine. And - this is free, folks - take off the "stekel", leave the "varken" and you have "pig".
Upon further investigation, I found the Dutch word "steckelig" means "prickly".
So, there you have it. Stekelvarkin: prickly pig.
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