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whistle pigs

whistle pigs is the plural 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

Questions about whistle pigs

What is whistle pigs the plural of?
Whistle pigs is the plural of whistle pig.

Words near whistle pigs in the dictionary

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

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