From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishwoodchuckwood‧chuck /ˈwʊdtʃʌk/ noun [countable] a groundhog
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woodchuck• Insects, diseases, marauding deer and woodchucks.• I could hear Kaptan whimper as he pushed the dead woodchuck frantically from him.• I was Unca Donald and I had a new junior woodchuck.• I gestured to the remaining woodchuck to crouch.Origin woodchuck (1600-1700) Ojibwa otchig “fisher, marten”, or Cree otcheck; influenced by wood 