groundhog

• ground-hog, ground hog

From ground +‎ hog.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹaʊndhɒɡ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹaʊn(d)ˌ(h)ɔɡ/, (cot–caught merger) /-ˌ(h)ɑɡ/

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• Hyphenation: ground‧hog

groundhog (plural groundhogs)

1. A red-brown marmot, Marmota monax, native to North America.

   Synonyms: whistle-pig, woodchuck

   • 2016 February 1, Lisa Rose, “Punxsutawney Phil: Friend or foe? A Groundhog Day investigation”, in CNN‎^[1], archived from the original on 25 April 2016:

     In 1909, local newspapers reported that the governor of Pennsylvania attended the group’s annual feast and 400 groundhogs were served to 400 guests.

   • 2023 February 1, Scottie Andrew, “The bizarre history of Groundhog Day”, in CNN‎^[2], archived from the original on 18 July 2024:

     Many sources claim that the original Groundhog Day took place in 1887, when residents of Punxsutawney set out to Gobbler’s Knob, known as Phil’s “official” home, but the first piece of evidence Yoder found of townspeople trusting a groundhog for the weather, a diary entry, was dated 1840.

2. (rare) The aardvark.
3. (uncommon) Synonym of groundlubber

• → Kashubian: grańdółk (Canada)
• → Pennsylvania German: Grundsau (calque)

• groundhog on Wikipedia.Wikipedia