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A chipmunk is a small, lively animal from North America. It looks a bit like a squirrel, but it is smaller, with black stripes down its back and a face. It stuffs food in its cheeks and darts in and out of holes in the ground. You will not meet one wild in Taiwan; you meet it in picture books, zoos, and cartoons. The English name is not chip plus munk. It is an old reshaping of chitmunk, from Ojibwe for squirrels that go down headfirst; English speakers were also thinking of an older name, chipping squirrel, for the little noise they make. Though actually, because of Alvin and the Chipmunks, people later used chipmunk as a verb for talking in that high, sped-up cartoon voice. The animal is the first meaning.
組成Not chip + munk. From earlier chitmunk, reshaped under the influence of chipping squirrel, from older Ojibwe ačitamo˙nˀ, “squirrels,” literally those who descend headlong (from ačit-, headfirst). The later verb — to speak in a tiny high cartoon voice — comes from Alvin and the Chipmunks.
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
chipmunknoun/ˈt͡ʃɪp.mʌŋk/
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Any of the subtribe Tamiina of small, striped rodents; they are found in North America, with the exception of the Siberian chipmunk which is found primarily in Asia.
chipmunkverb/ˈt͡ʃɪp.mʌŋk/
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To speed up (an audio recording, especially a song), to make the voices high-pitched.
- The Dipset capo favors breezy, bass-heavy beats instead of chipmunked soul samples to celebrate the 'hood's favorite season.
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To fill (one's mouth or cheeks) with food.
- Less than a minute to go and she's chewing almost viciously, her stuffed cheeks all chipmunked out like Dizzy Gillespie's in midsolo.
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To stuff (food) into one's mouth or cheeks, sometimes as part of competitive eating.
- She chipmunked her breakfast into a porcelain cheek.
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