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whistle-pig

whistle-pig is the alternative form of whistle pig.

Meaning of whistle pig

Noun

whistle pig (plural whistle pigs)

  1. (US, dialectal) The woodchuck.
    • The whistlepigs, or woodchucks as we would call them in the North, get very fat in the autumn feeding on chestnuts.1904, Clifton Johnson, Highways and Byways of the South, New York: Macmillan Company, page 141

Forms of whistle-pig

pluralwhistle-pigs

Questions about whistle-pig

What is whistle-pig the alternative form of?
Whistle-pig is the alternative form of whistle pig.

Words near whistle-pig in the dictionary

  1. whistle-blowing
  2. whistle-blowings
  3. whistle-blown
  4. whistle-blows
  5. whistle-drunk
  6. whistle-pig
  7. whistle-pigs
  8. whistle-stop
  9. whistle-stopped
  10. whistle-stopping
  11. whistle-stops

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