chipmunk
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As much as I LOVE horses - the chipmunk is my favorite (at least I think it's a chipmunk).
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- noun Any of several small striped terrestrial squirrels of the genera Tamias and Eutamias, especially T. striatus of eastern North America.
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As much as I LOVE horses - the chipmunk is my favorite (at least I think it's a chipmunk).
— Blogtimore, Hon -
Usually the chipmunk is the first to emerge from its winter quarters.
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I'm sorry, that's like saying a rabbit has long pointy ears, then saying that a chipmunk is a rabbit.
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"I think a chipmunk is the happiest, cheerfulest thing I know."
— A Campfire Girl's First Council Fire The Camp Fire Girls In the Woods -
a tree, or a chipmunk ought to be able to make even those things seem human.
— Fanny Herself
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- Alteration of obsolete chitmunk, perhaps from Ojibwa ajidamoonʔ, red squirrel.
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/ (chĭpˈmŭngkˌ)/
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