hamster

• hampster (obsolete)

Borrowed from German Hamster (see for etymology). Displaced earlier term German rat.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈhæm(p)stɚ/

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hamster (plural hamsters)

1. Any of various Old-World rodent species belonging to the subfamily Cricetinae.
   • 1960, Doklady. Biological Sciences Sections, volumes 132–135, Washington, D.C.: American Institute of Biological Sciences, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 640, column 2:

     The tempo of evolution in South American hamsters was very rapid – in the course of the Pliocene and Anthropocene 40 genera were formed here, at which time a series of them attained the level of tribe and subtribe (Oxymycteri, Phyllotiini, Ichthyomyini).

   1. especially of species Mesocricetus auratus (the golden hamster) and species of genus Phodopus (dwarf hamsters), often kept as a pet or used in scientific research.

      The hamster stuffed his puffy cheeks with food.

      • 2013, George deStevens, Ernst Jucker, V. Zingel, Progress in Drug Research, page 166:

        Since the pregnancy interceptive agents or the menses regulators may also influence the development of either trophoblasts or the maternal cells (epithelial and stromal) at the embryo attachment site, another in vitro assay method using using trophoblast cells of hamster and mouse isolated from a preplacental organelle, the ectoplacental cone, has been developed.

2. Other rodents of similar appearance, such as the maned hamster or crested hamster, Lophiomys imhausi, mouse-like hamsters of genus Calomyscus, and the white-tailed rat (Mystromys albicaudatus).

• (golden hamster): Syrian hamster

• → Japanese: ハムスター (hamusutā)
• → Korean: 햄스터 (haemseuteo)
• → Scottish Gaelic: hamstair
• → Tagalog: hamster
• → Thai: แฮมสเตอร์ (hɛms-dtə̂ə)
• → Turkish: hamster

• gerbil
• guinea pig
• mouse
• rat

hamster (third-person singular simple present hamsters, present participle hamstering, simple past and past participle hamstered)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To secrete or store privately, as a hamster does with food in its cheek pouches.

   Synonym: stash

   • 1974, Phyllis Knight, Rolf Knight, A Very Ordinary Life, page 43:

     Probably the city government knew that without that hamstering half the city would starve and they somehow got the police to lay off. It was in the little stinky one-horse towns that you had all the trouble.

   • 2004, Sharon L. Pywell, What Happened to Henry, page 50:

     […] in his bedroom in neat stacks — he always hamstered them away upstairs as soon as the morning was done. This year the gifts sat ignored […]

   • 2014, Edith Sheffer, Burned Bridge: How East and West Germans Made the Iron Curtain:

     […] eastern children frequently “hamstered,” smuggled, and begged across the boundary, especially after currency reform […]

• hamster on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Golden hamster on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• hamster in Mammal Species of the World at Bucknell.

• Amherst, harmest

From German Hamster.

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hamster c (singular definite hamsteren, plural indefinite hamstere)

1. a hamster

• “hamster” in Den Danske Ordbog

• IPA^(key): /ˈɦɑmstər/

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• Hyphenation: ham‧ster

Borrowed from German Hamster.

hamster m (plural hamsters, diminutive hamstertje n)

1. hamster

• dwerghamster
• goudhamster
• hamsterbal
• hamsteren
• hamstermolen

• → Papiamentu: hamster

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

hamster

1. inflection of hamsteren:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

Borrowed from German Hamster and ultimately of Balto-Slavic origin.

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /am.stɛʁ/

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• (Quebec) IPA^(key): /am.stɚ/

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hamster m (plural hamsters)

1. hamster

• “hamster”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

hamster

1. singular imperative of hamstern

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:

Hamsterfamilien

Wikipedia ^no

From German Hamster.

hamster m (definite singular hamsteren, indefinite plural hamstere or hamstre or hamstrer, definite plural hamsterne or hamstrene)

1. a hamster

• “hamster” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:

Hamsterfamilien

Wikipedia ⁿⁿ

From German Hamster.

hamster m (definite singular hamsteren, indefinite plural hamsterar, definite plural hamsterane)

1. a hamster

• “hamster” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• hámster (uncommon)
• hâmster (rare)

From German Hamster and ultimately of Balto-Slavic origin.

hamster m (plural hamsters)

1. hamster (small, short-tailed European rodent)

Borrowed from German Hamster.

• IPA^(key): /ˈham.ster/

hamster m (plural hamsteri)

1. hamster

Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:

hamster

Wikipedia ^sv

From German Hamster and ultimately of Balto-Slavic origin.

hamster c

1. hamster

   Hamstern sprang i hjulet

   The hamster was running in the wheel

• guldhamster
• hamsterbur
• hamsterhjul
• hamstra
• hamstrare
• hamstring

• hamster in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• hamster in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• hamster in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• Svensk MeSH

Borrowed from English hamster.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈhamsteɾ/
• Rhymes: -amsteɾ
• Syllabification: hams‧ter

hamster (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜋ᜔ᜐ᜔ᜆᜒᜇ᜔)

1. hamster
   • 1996, Emmanuel A. Reyes, Malikhaing pelikula: mga sanaysay tungkol sa pelikulang Pilipino:

     Ilalagay ni PAUL ang retrato ni Ferdinand at Imelda Marcos sa likod ng kulungan ng mga hamster.

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   • 2020, TINA LATA, The Good Girl's Revenge:

     Kung may nasabi man akong hindi maganda, bakit hindi niya sabihin sa 'kin? Hindi naman ako manghuhula para malaman kung anong problema niya. Tiningnan ko 'yong hamster na gusto kong bilhin pero naisip ko si Tammy.

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From English hamster.

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• Hyphenation: hams‧ter

hamster (definite accusative hamsteri, plural hamsterler)

1. hamster