different between woodchuck vs chipmunk

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Cree ocêk, otchek (“fisher”), borrowed from 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 designated the marten.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?w?d.t??k/

Noun

woodchuck (plural woodchucks)

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

   Synonyms: groundhog, whistle pig, land-beaver, moonack

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Further reading

• woodchuck on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Alternative forms

• chipmuck (archaic)
• chitmunk (dated)

Etymology

1832; alteration (influenced by chipping squirrel) of earlier chitmunk, from older Ojibwe a?itamo?n? (“squirrels”) (modern ajidamoog), literally ‘those who descend headlong’, from a?it- (“headfirst, face-down”) (compare modern ajijibizo (“he falls headfirst”), ajidagoojin (“he hangs upside down”)). The verb developed due to the high-pitched voices of the American puppet and cartoon chipmunks in the group Alvin and the Chipmunks, who later starred in a popular children's TV show in the 1980s.

Noun

chipmunk (plural chipmunks)

1. A squirrel-like rodent of the genus Tamias, native mainly to North America.

Synonyms

• ground squirrel, striped squirrel

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Verb

chipmunk (third-person singular simple present chipmunks, present participle chipmunking, simple past and past participle chipmunked)

1. To speed up an audio recording, especially a song, to make the voices high-pitched.
2. In competitive eating, to stuff food in one's mouth during the final moments of a contest.