grundsow

noun

1. A groundhog, a woodchuck.

   rare

   Remember me when far, far off where grundsows die of whooping cough.

   1987, Sharon Sheehe Stark, A Wrestling Season, W. Morrow (publ.), page 38, 40.

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Pennsylvania German Grundsow/Grundsau (literally “ground sow”) which is itself a calque of English groundhog.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry grundsow (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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