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a furry exclamation point that sleeps 18 hours then turns your house into chaos
means A small, slender domesticated carnivore related to the polecat, traditionally used to flush rabbits and rodents from burrows — and also the verb 'to ferret out,' meaning to search persistently until you find something.
from From Old French 'furet,' a diminutive that traces back through Vulgar Latin 'furittus' to Latin 'fur,' meaning 'thief' — the little animal was literally named 'the little thief,' presumably for the way it slips into holes and snatches what's hiding there. That same image of poking into hidden places gave us the verb 'to ferret out.'
- domestic only
- Extinct in the wild for thousands of years
- happy dance
- They hop sideways when excited, called the weasel war dance
- war duty
- Used to run cables through aircraft and particle accelerators
- sleep masters
- Sleep up to 18 hours daily, dead to the world
- group name
- A pack of them is a business
black-footed ferret — endangered species native to north american great plains, thought extinct until 1981
domestic ferret — descended from european polecat, domesticated for hunting rabbits since middle ages