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Found 2 items, similar to Skunk.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: skunk
skunk
n 1: a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible;
“only a rotter would do that”;
“kill the rat”;
“throw
the bum out”;
“you cowardly little pukes!”; "the British
call a contemptible person a `git'" [syn:
rotter,
dirty dog
,
rat,
stinker,
stinkpot,
bum,
puke,
crumb,
lowlife,
scum bag,
so-and-so,
git]
2: a defeat in a game where one side fails to score [syn:
shutout]
3: street names for marijuana [syn:
pot,
grass,
green goddess
,
dope,
weed,
gage,
sess,
sens,
smoke,
locoweed,
Mary Jane]
4: American musteline mammal typically ejecting an intensely
malodorous fluid when startled; in some classifications
put in a separate subfamily Mephitinae [syn:
polecat,
wood pussy
]
v : defeat by a lurch [syn:
lurch]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Skunk
Skunk
\Skunk\, n. [Contr. from the Abenaki (American Indian)
seganku.] (Zo["o]l.)
Any one of several species of American musteline carnivores
of the genus
Mephitis and allied genera. They have two
glands near the anus, secreting an extremely fetid liquid,
which the animal ejects at pleasure as a means of defense.
[1913 Webster]
Note: The common species of the Eastern United States
(
Mephitis mephitica) is black with more or less white
on the body and tail. The spotted skunk (
Spilogale putorius
), native of the Southwestern United States
and Mexico, is smaller than the common skunk, and is
variously marked with black and white.
[1913 Webster]
Skunk bird,
Skunk blackbird (Zo["o]l.), the bobolink; --
so called because the male, in the breeding season, is
black and white, like a skunk.
Skunk cabbage (Bot.), an American aroid herb (
Symplocarpus f[oe]tidus
) having a reddish hornlike spathe in earliest
spring, followed by a cluster of large cabbagelike leaves.
It exhales a disagreeable odor. Also called
swamp cabbage
.
Skunk porpoise. (Zo["o]l.) See under
Porpoise.
[1913 Webster]
Skunk
\Skunk\, v. t.
In games of chance and skill: To defeat (an opponent) (as in
cards) so that he fails to gain a point, or (in checkers) to
get a king. [Colloq. U. S.]
[1913 Webster]
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