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"Marmota" is spanish for groundhog and is also used as a non-insulting synonym word for dumb.

There's nothing dumb about this approach, thought.



There is animal called a "marmot" in English that are large squirrels [0]. Groundhogs are part of that family, "Groundhog, woodchuck, or whistlepig, M. monax found in most of North America" [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marmot

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marmot#Subgenera_and_species




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