German rat

== English == === Noun === German rat (plural German rats) (obsolete) A hamster. 1817, Oliver Goldsmith, ‎Thomas Brown, Goldsmith's History of the Earth, and Animated Nature (page 256) The cricetus, or German rat, which Mr. Buffon calls the hamster, greatly resembles the water-rat in its size, small eyes, and the shortness of its tail.