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a chubby weather pundit with zero credentials and a 30% accuracy rate.
means A stocky burrowing North American rodent of the marmot family, also called a woodchuck, famous for hibernating and—per folklore—predicting spring.
from A plain English compound: 'ground' plus 'hog,' for a hefty animal that lives in the ground. Its other name, 'woodchuck,' has nothing to do with wood or chucking—it's likely an English reshaping of an Algonquian word (compare Narragansett 'ockqutchaun'), which folk-etymology then bent into the familiar tongue-twister about how much wood a woodchuck could chuck.
- true name
- woodchuck, marmot, and whistle-pig all mean groundhog
- deep sleeper
- heart drops to five beats per minute hibernating
- dig champion
- burrows can stretch 45 feet underground
- forecast fail
- Punxsutawney Phil is right barely a third of the time
- can climb
- surprisingly good at scaling trees to escape
punxsutawney phil — groundhog in pennsylvania predicting spring since 1887
wiarton willie — groundhog in ontario, canada's competing weather predictor
staten island chuck — groundhog at new york zoo with mayor's official predictions