prairie dog

Etymology 1
+ (from their yelping alarm calls)

Noun



 * 1) Any of genus, small, stout-bodied burrowing rodents with shallow cheek pouches, native to North America and Central America.

Translations

 * Apache:
 * Western Apache: ę́ʼ
 * Arikara: axkUs
 * Catalan: gosset de les praderies
 * Chinese: 草原犬鼠, 草原松鼠
 * Crimean Tatar: cercumuran
 * Czech: psoun stepní
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: cinomuso
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:, chienne de prairie
 * German:
 * Hawaiian: kokeiʻa
 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 프레리 도그, 마멋
 * Malay: anjing prairi
 * Navajo: dlǫ́ǫ́ʼ
 * Pawnee: askuc
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: cão-da-pradaria, cão-dos-prados
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian: prerijski pas
 * Spanish: perrito de las praderas
 * Swahili: kijibwanyika
 * Swedish: präriehund

Etymology 2
By analogy with how the animal pops its head up from its burrow.

Verb

 * 1)  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.
 * 2)  To struggle to hold back an involuntary bowel movement.
 * 3) * 2001, Andy Breckman, Rat Race
 * [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.
 * 1) * 2011, Various, David Mack, James Robinson, Ty Templeton, Alan Moore, Jeph Loeb, Kurt Busiek, Vampirella Masters Series 4: The Lost Tales
 * ...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!
 * 1) * 2011, Various, David Mack, James Robinson, Ty Templeton, Alan Moore, Jeph Loeb, Kurt Busiek, Vampirella Masters Series 4: The Lost Tales
 * ...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!
 * 1) * 2011, Various, David Mack, James Robinson, Ty Templeton, Alan Moore, Jeph Loeb, Kurt Busiek, Vampirella Masters Series 4: The Lost Tales
 * ...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!

Translations

 * Finnish:, ponnahdella


 * Finnish: ,