whistle pig
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.69 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
1
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The whistlepigs, or woodchucks as we would call them in the North, get very fat in the autumn feeding on chestnuts."
- "“Uncle” Joe Drane (who, besides being a good hunter and a fine shot, is also a cook with a reputation) had prepared breakfast. This morning it consisted of “whistle pig” (groundhog) and several fat squirrels he had killed the evening before, sweet potatoes, corn pone with sorghum and coffee."
- "Robinsons Friday, the mighty Nimrod of New Millport, has succeeded in bagging 47 whistle pigs, 16 squirrels and a screech owl."
- "As a weather breeder a great and unwarranted responsibility has been thus shifted to Johnny Woodchuck. In the Southern mountains, where he is known as the whistle-pig, he is all the more resented when sleet finds the unstopped cracks in a log cabin and unseasonable chill penetrates the corn-husk bed with its scant covers."
Usage
- American usage