hamster
Pronunciation
This text is extracted from the Wiktionary and it is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license | Terms and conditions | Privacy policy 0.004
Pronunciation
- (America) IPA: /ˈhæm(p)stɚ/
hamster (plural hamsters)
- Any of various Old-World rodent species belonging to the subfamily Cricetinae.
- especially, the golden hamster, Mesocricetus auratus, and the dwarf hamsters of genus Phodopus, often kept as a pets and used in scientific research.
- The hamster stuffed his puffy cheeks with food.
- especially, the golden hamster, Mesocricetus auratus, and the dwarf hamsters of genus Phodopus, often kept as a pets and used in scientific research.
- Other rodents of similar appearance, such as the maned hamster or crested hamster, Lophiomys imhausi, mouse-like hamsters of genus Calomyscus, and the white-tailed rat (Mystromys albicaudatus).
- (golden hamster) Syrian hamster
- French: hamster, rat de blé
- German: Hamster
- Italian: criceto
- Portuguese: hamster
- Russian: хомя́к
- Spanish: hámster
hamster (hamsters, present participle hamstering; past and past participle hamstered)
- (ambitransitive) To secrete or store privately, as a hamster does with food in its cheek pouches.
- Synonyms: stash
- 1974, Phyllis Knight, Rolf Knight, A Very Ordinary Life (page 43)
- Probably the city government knew that without that hamstering half the city would starve and they somehow got the police to lay off. It was in the little stinky one-horse towns that you had all the trouble.
This text is extracted from the Wiktionary and it is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license | Terms and conditions | Privacy policy 0.004