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whistle pig

whistle pig noun: the woodchuck.

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
    • “Uncle” Joe Drane (who, besides being a good hunter and a fine shot, is also a cook with a reputation) had prepared breakfast. This morning it consisted of “whistle pig” (groundhog) and several fat squirrels he had killed the evening before, sweet potatoes, corn pone with sorghum and coffee.1917 February, “After Bruin in the Big Smokies”, in Field and Stream, page 313

Forms of whistle pig

pluralwhistle pigs

Questions about whistle pig

What does whistle pig mean?
Whistle pig means the woodchuck.
What part of speech is whistle pig?
Whistle pig is a noun.
What is the plural of whistle pig?
The plural of whistle pig is whistle pigs.

Words near whistle pig in the dictionary

  1. whistle jigs to a milestone
  2. whistle note
  3. whistle notes
  4. whistle past
  5. whistle past the graveyard
  6. whistle pig
  7. whistle pigs
  8. whistle post
  9. whistle posts
  10. whistle register
  11. whistle registers

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