woodchuck

C2 Topic:General Vocabulary

US /ˈwʊd.t͡ʃʌk/ See IPA manual

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Meanings

1

noun
reddish brown North American marmot
2

noun
A rodent of the family Sciuridae, belonging to the group of large ground squirrels known as marmots, Marmota monax.

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Synonyms

1 noun · reddish brown north... groundhog

2 noun · a rodent of the family... groundhogland-beavermoonackwhistle pig

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How Much Wood
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck If a woodchuck could and would chuck wood? He’d chuck as much wood as a woodchuck would If a woodchuck could and would chuck wood.

Alternate the rounded /w/ with the short stop-and-release of /tʃ/. Wood, would and could share /ʊ/; chuck and much use /ʌ/ in many Englis...

Etymology

Borrowed from Cree ocêk, otchek (“fisher”), Ojibwe ojiig (“fisher, marten”), or a similar term in a related Algonquian language, subsequently reapplied to the groundhog. An earlier form of this word, woodshock, still sometimes designates the marten. Also a doublet of wejack.

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