chipmunk

English

A chipmunk.

Etymology

1832; alteration (influenced by chipping squirrel) of earlier chitmunk, from older (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ojibwe ačitamo˙nˀ (“squirrels”) (modern ajidamóóg), literally ‘those who descend headlong’, from ačit- (“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 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

Translations

squirrel-like rodent

• Abenaki: anikwses
• Armenian: շերտասկյուռ (šertaskyuṙ)
• Belarusian: бурунду́к m (burundúk)
• Bulgarian: бурунду́к m (burundúk)
• Buryat: жэрхи (žerxi)
• Cahuarano: sisill
• Cherokee: ᎩᏳᎦ (giyuga)
• Cheyenne: néške'ēsta
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 花栗鼠 (zh) (huālìshǔ)

• Choctaw: chinisa
• Chuvash: пӑрӑнтӑк (părănt̬ăk)
• Danish: jordegern n
• Dutch: wangzakeekhoorn (nl) m
• Esperanto: tamiaso
• Estonian: vöötorav
• Faroese: jarðaríkorni m
• Finnish: maaorava (fi), tikutaku (fi)
• French: tamia (fr) m, suisse (fr) m
• Georgian: ბურუნდუკი (burunduḳi), ციყვი (ciq̇vi)
• German: Streifenhörnchen (de) n
• Hawaiian: ʻakuiki
• Hungarian: csíkosmókus
• Icelandic: jarðíkorni m
• Irish: iora talún m
• Italian: tamia m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: シマリス (shimarisu), 縞栗鼠 (ja) (しまりす, shimarisu)
• Khakas: кӧрік
• Korean: 다람쥐 (ko) (daramjwi)
• Latin: tamias
• Lithuanian: burundukas (lt)
• Mi'kmaq: apalqaqamej anim, apalgaqamej anim, amalpaqamej anim
• Mohegan-Pequot: aniks
• Mongolian: жирх (mn) (žirx)
• Navajo: hazéítsʼósii
• Nivkh: тʼаӻр (tʼaġr), курӈай (kurŋaj)
• Ojibwe: agongos
• Polish: pręgowiec m
• Portuguese: tâmia f
• Romanian: veveriță dungată f
• Russian: бурунду́к (ru) m (burundúk)
• Scottish Gaelic: feòrag-stiallach f
• Spanish: ardilla listada f, ardilla rayada f, tamia f
• Swedish: jordekorre (sv) c
• Taos: k’ùoxwį́wna
• Tatar: борындык (tt) (borındıq)
• Thai: ชิปมังก์
• Ukrainian: бурунду́к (uk) m (burundúk)
• Uzbek: burunduq
• Vietnamese: sóc chuột
• Welsh: gwiwer resog f

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.