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7 letters · 12 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun any of various short-tailed furry-footed rodents of circumpolar distribution
originFrom Danish and Norwegian lemming, from Old Norse lómundr, læmingi, læmingr (“lemming”), perhaps from Sami luomek. Sense 2 derives from a longstanding myth that they exhibit so much herd mentality that populations jump off cliffs to their deaths together.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0