woodchuck
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++wood·chuck /ˈwʊdtʃʌk/ noun [countable] a groundhog 土拨鼠
Examples from the Corpus
woodchuck• Insects, diseases, marauding deer and woodchucks.• I could hear Kaptan whimper as he pushed the dead woodchuck frantically from him.• I was Unca Donald and I had a new junior woodchuck.• I gestured to the remaining woodchuck to crouch.Origin woodchuck (1600-1700) Ojibwa otchig “fisher, marten”, or Cree otcheck; influenced by woodwood·chuck nounChineseSyllable
Corpus a groundhog
woodchuck
wood‧chuck /ˈwʊdtʃʌk/
noun [countable]
wood‧chuck /ˈwʊdtʃʌk/
noun [countable] Date: 1600-1700
Language: Ojibwa
Origin: otchig 'fisher, marten', or Cree otcheck; influenced by wood
a groundhog
Language: Ojibwa
Origin: otchig 'fisher, marten', or Cree otcheck; influenced by wood