ferrididdle
A wonderfully quirky piece of American regional slang for a chipmunk — one of those folk names that must have felt perfectly logical to whoever coined it.
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A wonderfully quirky piece of American regional slang for a chipmunk — one of those folk names that must have felt perfectly logical to whoever coined it. Ferrididdle is the kind of word that sounds like what it describes: something small, quick, and slightly ridiculous. Documented as a US regional term, likely from rural or Appalachian dialect, it's the sort of colourful vernacular that gets passed down through families long after it vanishes from dictionaries. Almost guaranteed to get a laugh when you use it unironically.
A ferrididdle had stolen half my trail mix before I even noticed it had been in my backpack.
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(US, regional) A chipmunk.
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