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lemming (n.)
small arctic rodent, c. 1600, from Norwegian
lemming
, from Old Norse
lomundr
"lemming." Perhaps from Lapp
luomek
. Figurative sense (in reference to their mass migrations that sometimes end in plunges into the sea) is from 1958.