hamster
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Noun (1)hamsters
- short-tailed Old World burrowing rodent with large cheek pouchesType of rodent, gnawerKinds golden hamster, Eurasian hamsterMember of Cricetus, genus Cricetus
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Translations
Noun rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
- Spanish
- hámster
- French
- hamster
- German
- Hamster
- Italian
- criceto
- Portuguese
- hamster
- Turkish
- hamster
- Russian
- хомя́к xomják
- Arabic
- هَامِسْتَر hāmistar
- Chinese
- 仓鼠 cāngshǔ
- Japanese
- ハムスター hamusutā
30 more languages
- Dutch
- hamster
- Polish
- chomik
- Swedish
- hamster
- Greek
- χάμστερ chámster
- Korean
- 햄스터 haemseuteo
- Indonesian
- hamster
- Vietnamese
- chuột hamster
- Hungarian
- hörcsög
- Portuguese (PT)
- hamster
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 倉鼠 cāngshǔ
- Albanian
- hamster
- Breton
- hamster
- Catalan
- hàmster
- Czech
- křeček
- Danish
- hamster
- Esperanto
- hamstro
- Estonian
- hamster
- Finnish
- hamsteri
- Georgian
- ზაზუნა zazuna
- Hebrew
- אוֹגֵר ogér
- Icelandic
- hamstur
- Latvian
- kāmis
- Lithuanian
- žiurkėnas
- Norwegian
- hamster
- Romanian
- hamster
- Scottish Gaelic
- hamstair
- Serbo-Croatian
- hrčak
- Slovak
- škrečok
- Slovenian
- hrček
- Welsh
- bochdew
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: G. hamster.
Zoology A small European rodent (Cricetus frumentarius). It is remarkable for having a pouch on each side of the jaw, under the skin, and for its migrations. Hamsters are commonly kept as a pets.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: +PJC
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
1.<programming> (From Fairchild) A particularly slick little piece of code that does one thing well; a small, self-contained hack. The image is of a hamster happily spinning its exercise wheel.
2.<hardware> A tailless mouse; that is, one with an infrared link to a receiver on the machine, as opposed to the conventional cable.
3.<product> (UK) Any item of hardware made by Amstrad, a company famous for its cheap plastic PC-almost-compatibles. [Jargon File]
(1995-02-16)
The Jargon File
1.[Fairchild] A particularly slick little piece of code that does one thing well; a small, self-contained hack. The image is of a hamster happily spinning its exercise wheel.
2.A tailless mouse; that is, one with an infrared link to a receiver on the machine, as opposed to the conventional cable.
3.[UK] Any item of hardware made by Amstrad, a company famous for its cheap plastic PC-almost-compatibles.