grundsow

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Pennsylvania German Grundsow/Grundsau (literally “ground sow”) which is itself a calque of English groundhog.

Noun

grundsow (plural grundsows)

1. (rare, chiefly Pennsylvania) A groundhog, a woodchuck.
   • 1987, Sharon Sheehe Stark, A Wrestling Season, W. Morrow (publ.), page 38, 40.

     Remember me when far, far off where grundsows die of whooping cough.