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groundhog
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Word definitions for groundhog in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. reddish brown North American marmot [syn: woodchuck , Marmota monax ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
groundhog \ground"hog`\, ground hog \ground" hog`\ (ground"h[o^]g`), n. A reddish brown North American burrowing marmot ( Marmota monax ), also called the woodchuck . It hibernates in the winter. Syn: woodchuck, Marmota monax .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ At least the blood congealing on the asphalt proved that his groundhog was freshly killed. ▪ In Maine, people gauge whether spring has arrived not by groundhogs, but by skunks. ▪ It will be weeks before the groundhog comes up. ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1784, from ground (n.) + hog (n.). Also known colloquially as a whistlepig , and compare aardvark . Ground Hog Day first recorded 1871, American English.
Usage examples of groundhog.
The cloak had not put out the fire entirely, though, and quenching the flames that sprang up here and there had entailed a great deal of excitement and rushing about, in the course of which Orrie McCallum was misplaced, toddled off, and fell into the groundhog kiln, where he was foundmany frantic minutes laterby Rollo.
It means a groundhog, an earthcrawler, a dirt dweller, one who never goes into space, not of our tribe, not human, a goy, an auslander, a savage, beneath contempt.
The hard winter that is going to begin about Xmas time has been definitely prophesied, in fact promised by the squirrels, the groundhogs and the makers of fur garments and by the West Indian Steamship agents.
The local groundhogs are too careful of their own skins to scratch ours!
Ask the birds if hollow wheat kernels are bitter, or if groundhogs can gnaw bare cobs.
Every two or three years, James Lucas and Donny and Amos would fill up one of the groundhog kilns and burn enough to dole out piece by piece like it was the last of the old.
To the left was the nonmarital groundhog kiln, a low, domed, brick-lined burrow with a firebox in the front and a chimney at the back.
If we sit back long enough to make grooving behooving, do nothing long enough while the Charonians do a dance on the Earthers, them groundhogs will be back in mud huts and still going down!
Ab had felt that, although there was a better than even chance they would be exposed, surely the groundhogs couldn't stay angry for 23 years-even if they were unimpressed by the antimatter and other wonders .
At night, the on-property generator boosted it to a lethal voltage, and each morning a squad of five groundskeepers circled it in little electric golf carts, picking up the bodies of crisped rabbits, moles, birds, groundhogs, an occasional skunk lying in a pool of smell, sometimes a deer.
He remembered how she had smelled of sour groundhog yogurt, and the way their kitty-kebab suppers tended to stick on her mustache and nostril hairs.