Squirrel meaning in English
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Definition
a squirrel: a gray or red small animal living in trees, with a long and bushy tail (they eat nuts!)
Pronunciation examples
UK: Squirrels have big teeth and fluffy tails.
US: Squirrels enjoy enormous nuts; they hide them in trees.
Examples
- "It makes me feel like a big man to shoot bears, rabbits, deer, ducks of course, the occasional wild turkey, geese, hell I'll shoot a squirrel if I'm drunk enough-"
Exercise 1
Let's take a walk on the wild side! Fill the blanks below with terms used in the radio broadcast.
I am an orange and white animal with a big bushy tail. I'm related to dogs and wolves, and I enjoy eating food from bins in cities. I am a .
I am a large four-legged animal. People ride me, race me, and use me to pull carts or carriages. I am a .
This is the part of the face used for smelling and detecting odors. It is also useful for sneezing. It is the .
This is a musical instrument which we blow. They're often used in the army. "Trumpets" are colloquially known as .
To chase a wild animal, kill it, and perhaps eat it, is to it.
I am an orange and white animal with a big bushy tail. I'm related to dogs and wolves, and I enjoy eating food from bins in cities. I am a .
I am a large four-legged animal. People ride me, race me, and use me to pull carts or carriages. I am a .
This is the part of the face used for smelling and detecting odors. It is also useful for sneezing. It is the .
This is a musical instrument which we blow. They're often used in the army. "Trumpets" are colloquially known as .
To chase a wild animal, kill it, and perhaps eat it, is to it.
Let's take a walk on the wild side! Fill the blanks below with terms used in the radio broadcast.
I am an orange and white animal with a big bushy tail. I'm related to dogs and wolves, and I enjoy eating food from bins in cities. I am a fox 1.
I am a large four-legged animal. People ride me, race me, and use me to pull carts or carriages. I am a horse 2.
This is the part of the face used for smelling and detecting odors. It is also useful for sneezing. It is the nose 3.
This is a musical instrument which we blow. They're often used in the army. "Trumpets" are colloquially known as horns 4.
To chase a wild animal, kill it, and perhaps eat it, is to hunt 5 it.
I am an orange and white animal with a big bushy tail. I'm related to dogs and wolves, and I enjoy eating food from bins in cities. I am a fox 1.
I am a large four-legged animal. People ride me, race me, and use me to pull carts or carriages. I am a horse 2.
This is the part of the face used for smelling and detecting odors. It is also useful for sneezing. It is the nose 3.
This is a musical instrument which we blow. They're often used in the army. "Trumpets" are colloquially known as horns 4.
To chase a wild animal, kill it, and perhaps eat it, is to hunt 5 it.
1 fox: "Fox" is the right answer here. "Foxes" (note the irregular plural) are wild animals which look like orange dogs with big tails. Historically, they only lived in the countryside, but nowadays they sometimes come into towns. In the radio broadcast, we learnt about "fox hunting", which is the pursuit of foxes in the country.
2 horse: "Horse" is the animal which was described here. "Horses" are beautiful four-legged animals with long tails and manes. People ride and race them for fun, and in the past they were an important means of transport. Example: "Marjorie wants to be a famous jockey and race horses at Ascot".
3 nose: "Nose" is the term we were looking for here. Most people and mammals have one "nose" in the middle of their face. We use our ears to hear, our eyes to see, and our noses to smell! Horatio Oléré has the most powerful nose in the history of the universe.
4 horns: "Horns" is the right answer here. "Horns" are hard, bone-like growths on the head of some animals. Animals use them to defend themselves against predators, and sometimes fight each other. Humans have used horns for many centuries. In the context of the radio program, the "horn" is a musical instrument used to call to others. "Horns" are used in hunting, in the army, etc.
5 hunt: "Hunt" is the correct term. To "hunt (a bear)" is to find, follow, catch, and kill it. People hunt animals because they want to eat them, take their fur, take their horns, etc.
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