skunk
☆ skunk (skuŋk)
noun pl. skunks or skunk
- any of several bushy-tailed carnivores (family Mustelidae) of the New World, about the size of a house cat: it has glossy black fur, usually with white stripes or spots down the back, and ejects a foul-smelling, musky liquid when disturbed or frightened
- its fur
- Informal a despicable, offensive person
Etymology: < New England Algonquian cognate of Abenaki segôgw
transitive verb
Slang to defeat overwhelmingly in a game or contest; often, specif., to keep from scoring any points
Object
- cabbage: But in contrast to skunk cabbage, you can easily pull a wild calla out of the soil.
Converse of object
- use: While there is little research so far, it is likely that using skunk carries a higher risk of causing mental illness.
- smoke: Have you been smoking too much skunk or eating too many hash cakes?
- avoid: If you have no chance of avoiding the skunk, strive to avoid the double skunk!
- include: The original hybrids, including skunk itself, are believed to have originated in the USA.
- have: By this time we also had a pet skunk which is not native to Alaska.
Adjective modifier
- super: Recently, stronger types of herbal cannabis have become available with names like northern lights and super skunk.
- dead: That he's just trying to slip a dead skunk into the tumble drier.
Modifies a noun
- cabbage: Year by year skunk cabbage becomes more deeply anchored in the ground.
- cannabis: Skunk cannabis This is a strong form of herbal cannabis.
- rock: NME called us ' skunk rock ' - that lasted about three weeks and then it was ' political ' .
- fur: Clothing manufacture Banking facilities for sporran manufacturer that imported from Canada wild fox, raccoon and skunk fur.
- stripe: Fit mudguards too, so that if the road is wet you don't get sprayed with the characteristic " skunk stripe " .
- plant: There we managed to get over the wall without the dog eating us and grab the first skunk plant we saw.
Noun used with modifier
- name: The name Skunk itself points to a USA connection ( being so-called because of the pungent odor it emits while growing ).
- cartoon: Evans clubs the prostrate Irving with this book; [ Mr Irving's ] website depicts the Professor as a cartoon skunk.
- baby: There was a baby skunk lying at the side of the road, and she got out to see if it was still alive.
Preposition: in
- road: What's the difference between a dead skunk in the road and a crushed viola in the road?
To blame someone like Northcliffe for making money in the quickest way is like blaming a skunk for stinking.
I just won't get into a pissing contest with that skunk.
What shall we say of the intelligence, not to say religion, of those who are so particular to distinguish between fishes and reptiles and birds, but put a man with an immortalsoul inthesame circlewiththewolf, thehyena, and theskunk? What must betheimpressionmadeupon children by such a degradation of man?
Browse dictionary entries near skunk
- skullcap
- skull and crossbones
- skull
- skulk
- skulduggery
- skua
- SKU
- Skr
- Skopje
- skookum
- skunk cabbage
- skunk works
- skunkweed
- sky
- sky blue
- sky diving
- sky-high
- sky marshal
- sky pilot
- sky wave
