grundsow

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English

Etymology

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

Noun

grundsow (plural grundsows)

  1. (rare, chiefly Pennsylvania) A groundhog, a woodchuck.
    • 1987, Sharon Sheehe Stark, A Wrestling Season, W. Morrow (publ.), page 38, 40.
      Remember me when far, far off where grundsows die of whooping cough.