Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The common chipmunk or ground-squirrel of the United States, Tamias striatus. See cut under chipmunk.
  • noun In ceramics, a mixture of whiting and gum painted on biscuit-ware when a reserved design is desired in a printed pattern. The whiting drops off in the kiln, leaving a white reserved design on the ground color.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.), United States The chipmunk; also, the chickaree or red squirrel.

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  • noun US, dialect The chickaree or red squirrel.
  • noun US, dialect The chipmunk.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun small striped semiterrestrial eastern American squirrel with cheek pouches

Etymologies

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From its chittering cry when alarmed.

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Examples

  • “He sees himself as a user — and a hackee,” since his campaign Web site was itself compromised during the election in 2008.

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  • “He sees himself as a user—and a hackee,” since his campaign Web site was itself compromised during the election in 2008.

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  • It always lives in large villages, and Audubon, who opened some dwellings of the hackee in the winter, found several individuals in the same apartment; they must have stored it with common efforts.

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  • These were the grey, black, and red or fox varieties of the tree squirrel, and two species of ground squirrel -- one the common hackee, or chipping squirrel; while the other was a new species, which we had caught on the desert plain above, among the roots of the _artemisia_ plant.

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