"prairie dog" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Audio: En-us-ncalif-prairiedogging.ogg [Northern-California, US] Forms: prairie dogs [plural]
Etymology: prairie + dog (from their yelping alarm calls) Etymology templates: {{m|en|prairie}} prairie, {{m|en|dog}} dog Head templates: {{en-noun}} prairie dog (plural prairie dogs)
  1. Any of genus Cynomys, small, stout-bodied burrowing rodents with shallow cheek pouches, native to North America and Central America. Categories (lifeform): Squirrels Hyponyms (Cynomys): Gunnison's prairie dog (taxonomic: Cynomys gunnisoni), white-tailed prairie dog (taxonomic: Cynomys leucurus), black-tailed prairie dog, Mexican prairie dog (taxonomic: Cynomys mexicanus), Utah prairie dog (taxonomic: Cynomys parvidens) Translations (burrowing rodent): áxkus (Arikara), gosset de les praderies [masculine] (Catalan), 草原犬鼠 (cǎoyuánquǎn shǔ) (Chinese), 草原松鼠 (cǎoyuán sōngshǔ) (Chinese), cercumuran (Crimean Tatar), psoun stepní [masculine] (Czech), prairiehond [masculine] (Dutch), cinomuso (Esperanto), preerikko (Finnish), preeriakoira (Finnish), chien de prairie [masculine] (French), chienne de prairie [feminine] (French), Präriehund [masculine] (German), kokeiʻa (Hawaiian), prérikutya (Hungarian), プレーリードッグ (purērī doggu) (Japanese), 프레리 도그 (peureri dogeu) (Korean), 마멋 (mameot) (Korean), anjing prairi (Malay), dlǫ́ǫ́ʼ (Navajo), áskuc (Pawnee), nieświszczuk [masculine] (Polish), piesek preriowy [masculine] (Polish), cão-da-pradaria [masculine] (Portuguese), cão-dos-prados [masculine] (Portuguese), лугова́я соба́чка (lugovája sobáčka) [feminine] (Russian), prerijski pas [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), perrito de las praderas [masculine] (Spanish), kijibwanyika [class-7, class-8] (Swahili), präriehund [common-gender] (Swedish), ę́ʼ (Western Apache)
    Sense id: en-prairie_dog-en-noun-W3WOzPEP Disambiguation of Squirrels: 59 29 13 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 55 37 8 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 72 19 9 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 65 25 9
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Verb [English]

Audio: En-us-ncalif-prairiedogging.ogg [Northern-California, US] Forms: prairie dogs [present, singular, third-person], prairie dogging [participle, present], prairie dogged [participle, past], prairie dogged [past]
Etymology: By analogy with how the animal pops its head up from its burrow. Head templates: {{en-verb|++}} prairie dog (third-person singular simple present prairie dogs, present participle prairie dogging, simple past and past participle prairie dogged)
  1. (intransitive, transitive) To pop up from a hole or similar in a manner that resembles the way a prairie dog pops his head up from his burrow. Tags: intransitive, transitive Synonyms: prairie-dog Related terms: crown (english: see: medical definition) Translations (to pop up as if from a hole): ponnahtaa (Finnish), ponnahdella (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-prairie_dog-en-verb-gpQspnaZ Disambiguation of 'to pop up as if from a hole': 95 5
  2. (slang, euphemistic) To struggle to hold back an involuntary bowel movement. Tags: euphemistic, slang Categories (topical): Feces Translations (to hold back one's bowel movement): pidättää (Finnish), pidätellä (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-prairie_dog-en-verb-xjiUUQDd Disambiguation of Feces: 16 11 73 Categories (other): English euphemisms Disambiguation of "to hold back one's bowel movement": 7 93
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

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      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "gosset de les praderies"
    },
    {
      "code": "zh",
      "lang": "Chinese",
      "roman": "cǎoyuánquǎn shǔ",
      "sense": "burrowing rodent",
      "word": "草原犬鼠"
    },
    {
      "code": "zh",
      "lang": "Chinese",
      "roman": "cǎoyuán sōngshǔ",
      "sense": "burrowing rodent",
      "word": "草原松鼠"
    },
    {
      "code": "crh",
      "lang": "Crimean Tatar",
      "sense": "burrowing rodent",
      "word": "cercumuran"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "burrowing rodent",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "psoun stepní"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "burrowing rodent",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "prairiehond"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "burrowing rodent",
      "word": "cinomuso"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "burrowing rodent",
      "word": "preerikko"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "burrowing rodent",
      "word": "preeriakoira"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "burrowing rodent",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "chien de prairie"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "burrowing rodent",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "chienne de prairie"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "burrowing rodent",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Präriehund"
    },
    {
      "code": "haw",
      "lang": "Hawaiian",
      "sense": "burrowing rodent",
      "word": "kokeiʻa"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "burrowing rodent",
      "word": "prérikutya"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "purērī doggu",
      "sense": "burrowing rodent",
      "word": "プレーリードッグ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "peureri dogeu",
      "sense": "burrowing rodent",
      "word": "프레리 도그"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "mameot",
      "sense": "burrowing rodent",
      "word": "마멋"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "burrowing rodent",
      "word": "anjing prairi"
    },
    {
      "code": "nv",
      "lang": "Navajo",
      "sense": "burrowing rodent",
      "word": "dlǫ́ǫ́ʼ"
    },
    {
      "code": "paw",
      "lang": "Pawnee",
      "sense": "burrowing rodent",
      "word": "áskuc"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "burrowing rodent",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "nieświszczuk"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "burrowing rodent",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "piesek preriowy"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "burrowing rodent",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "cão-da-pradaria"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "burrowing rodent",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "cão-dos-prados"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "lugovája sobáčka",
      "sense": "burrowing rodent",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "лугова́я соба́чка"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "burrowing rodent",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "prerijski pas"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "burrowing rodent",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "perrito de las praderas"
    },
    {
      "code": "sw",
      "lang": "Swahili",
      "sense": "burrowing rodent",
      "tags": [
        "class-7",
        "class-8"
      ],
      "word": "kijibwanyika"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "burrowing rodent",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "präriehund"
    }
  ],
  "word": "prairie dog"
}

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      "english": "see: medical definition",
      "word": "crown"
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          "text": "2001, Andy Breckman, Rat Race\n[Kimberly needs to go to the bathroom] Dad, I'm prairie dogging it! What the hell does that mean? You know, like when a prairie dog sticks his head in and out of the ground."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Adrien Clautrier with Rowe, Henry and Mack, Lindsay, Dirty French: Everyday Slang from \"What's Up?\" to \"F*%# Off!\", Berkeley: Ulysses Press, →LCCN, page 54",
          "text": "I'm about to crap my pants.\nJe vais me faire au froc.\nI'm prairie-dogging it.\nJ'ai le cigare au bout des lèvres.\nLiterally, “the cigar is at the edge of my lips”",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Brian J. Baker, Yuck! ...That Guy Didn't Wash His Hands!: The Complete Guide to the American Man's Bathroom Experience, American Bathroom Experience, page 150",
          "text": "[…] Postin' Up On the Blaster / Power Dump / Prairie-Dogging it / Press a Loaf Purp […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, David, Jr. Rivera, Harlem's Dragon: The Love You Can't Fight, Largo: Strebo Books, page 162",
          "text": "“Oh, God stop, stop,” Kat said, holding her side, “I'm starting to prairie dog.” […] “You know, prairie dogging,” Kat said, trying to explain between breaths. “When it pokes its head out of the hole and then back in, out and in, out and in.”",
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        },
        {
          "text": "2011, Various, David Mack, James Robinson, Ty Templeton, Alan Moore, Jeph Loeb, Kurt Busiek, Vampirella Masters Series 4: The Lost Tales\n...They are gonna get a mouthful and a pantful. Crappin their shorts all the way into next week... Yeah those little bastards will be prairie dogging it all the way home!"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To struggle to hold back an involuntary bowel movement."
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        "(slang, euphemistic) To struggle to hold back an involuntary bowel movement."
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    {
      "word": "prairie-dog"
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to pop up as if from a hole",
      "word": "ponnahtaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to pop up as if from a hole",
      "word": "ponnahdella"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to hold back one's bowel movement",
      "word": "pidättää"
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to hold back one's bowel movement",
      "word": "pidätellä"
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