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a furry pocket-thief that hoards your snacks in cheeks the size of its head
means A small, stout rodent with chubby cheek pouches, commonly kept as a pet and known for stuffing food into those cheeks to carry it back to a stash.
from Borrowed in the 1600s from German 'Hamster', which traces back to Old High German 'hamustro' — itself likely borrowed from a Slavic source (compare Old Church Slavonic 'choměstorŭ'). The deeper meaning is uncertain, but it may have meant something like 'corn-weevil' or 'hoarder', a fittingly thieving pedigree for a creature whose name and habit both involve squirreling things away.
- cheek capacity
- pouches stretch back to their shoulders
- wheel athlete
- can run five miles in one night
- solo by nature
- Syrians will fight roommates to the death
- name origin
- German hamstern means to hoard
- poor eyesight
- nearly blind, navigates by scent and whiskers
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