Skunk
10 definitions retrieved  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] Skunk \Skunk\, n. [Contr. from the Abenaki (American Indian) seganku.] (Zool.) 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 (Zool.), 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. (Zool.) See under Porpoise. [1913 Webster]  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, skunk, 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, skunk] 3: street names for marijuana [syn: pot, grass, {green goddess}, dope, weed, gage, sess, sens, smoke, skunk, 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: skunk, polecat, wood pussy] v 1: defeat by a lurch [syn: lurch, skunk]  skunk [skʌŋk] Stinktier  skunk aljasfráter alávalófráter bûzösborz hitványfráter kapcabetyár piszkoscsirkefogó rondafráter szkunkszszôrme szkunksz utolsófráter  skunk [skʌŋk] stinkdier  skunk Saukerl m skunk Stinktier n; Skunk m [zool.]  Skunk m [zool.] skunk  84 Moby Thesaurus words for "skunk": Cape polecat, animal, ape, bar, bear, beast, beat, blank, bulldoze, cavy, chimp, chimpanzee, clobber, coon, cream, cur, defeat utterly, dog, drub, ferret, foumart, glutton, groundhog, guinea pig, hedgehog, hound, hyena, insect, lambaste, larrup, lick, mongrel, monk, monkey, mousehound, opossum, overbear, overwhelm, paste, pig, polecat, porcupine, possum, prairie dog, prick, quill pig, raccoon, reptile, rotten egg, schmear, scum, serpent, shellac, shit, shithead, shut out, smear, snake, snow under, steamroller, stink ball, stink bomb, stinkard, stinker, stinkpot, swine, thrash, toad, turd, varmint, vermin, viper, warning sign, weasel, whelm, whelp, whistle-pig, whitewash, whomp, whop, wolverine, woodchuck, worm, zoril Skunk related |
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