groundhogese

noun
/ˌɡɹaʊndhɒɡˈiːz/UK/ˌɡɹaʊn(d)ˌ(h)ɔɡˈiz/US

Etymology

From groundhog + -ese (suffix forming the names of languages used in particular contexts).

  1. derived from *suH-✻
  2. derived from *sukkos✻
  3. derived from *kewh₂-✻ — “to beat, hew, forge”
  4. derived from *hawwaną✻ — “to hew, forge”
  5. derived from hǫggva — “to strike, chop, cut”
  6. inherited from hogg
  7. inherited from hog
  8. compounded as groundhog — “ground + hog”
  9. formed as groundhogese — “groundhog + -ese”

Definitions

  1. A supposed language in which groundhogs and humans can communicate with each other.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for groundhogese. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA