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[ ground-hog, -hawg ] / ˈgraʊndˌhɒg, -hɔg /
Origin of groundhogAn Americanism dating back to 1650–60; ground1 + hog Words nearby groundhogground fog, ground frost, ground game, ground glass, ground hemlock, groundhog, Groundhog Day, ground ice, grounding, ground itch, ground ivy Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for groundhogColumbus Day felt a lot more like Groundhog Day in Kentucky on Monday night. Mitch McConnell-Alison Lundergan Grimes Debate Leaves Kentucky Hanging|Sam Youngman|October 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST More than a dozen years after the horrors of 9/11, we find ourselves in a Groundhog Day-style nightmare. Why We Shouldn't Be Scared of ISIS: Threat Inflation and Our Next Dumb War|Nick Gillespie|September 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST “The groundhog came out today, laughed, and scratched ‘See Real Life’ in the dirt,” he says. The Stacks: The Inimitable Albert Brooks Caught at the Dawn of His Movie Career|Paul Slansky|April 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST Caddy Shack, Stripes, Ghostbusters, Groundhog Day and Analyze This affirm it. How Harold Ramis Invented Baby Boom Comedy With ‘Animal House’|P. J. O’Rourke|February 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Harold Ramis made a passel of great comedies, but he never made one better than Groundhog Day. Harold Ramis’s ‘Groundhog Day’ Is About as Perfect as a Movie Gets|Malcolm Jones|February 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST A groundhog sat up on a log and whistled, too, after a manner of his own. Our Southern Highlanders|Horace Kephart The groundhog knows enough to go into his hole when the snow begins to fly, and to stay there until the sun thaws him out again. The Other Fellow|F. Hopkinson Smith Alan would none of it; he was off to his woodchuck or groundhog. Thoroughbreds|W. A. Fraser He focused his own gaze upon the commissioner's eye as intently as he would have watched a groundhog hole in the hills. The Red Debt|Everett MacDonald It was with him, however, "a groundhog case," as we used to call such imperative occasions. The History of Minnesota and Tales of the Frontier|Charles E. Flandrau
British Dictionary definitions for groundhog
nounanother name for woodchuck Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |