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skunk(1) (iou)



skunk noun. M17.
[Cognate of Western Abnaki segongw.]
Any of several American animals of the subfamily Mephitinae in the weasel family, having black and white striped or streaked fur and a bushy tail, and able to spray a foul-smelling liquid from the anal glands when threatened; esp. the common N. American striped skunk, Mephitis mephitis. M17.
b. The fur of the skunk. M19.
A mean or contemptible person. colloq. E19.
N. West I'm through with that skunk, I tell you.
b. A worthless or corrupt thing, idea, etc. colloq. E20.
D. H. Lawrence That superior stuff is just holy skunk.
c. An unidentified surface craft. US Military slang. M20.
An extremely potent variety of marijuana made from hybrid plants grown esp. under artificial conditions, having a pungent smell when smoked. slang. L20.
Comb.: skunk bear = WOLVERINE; skunk-bird, skunk-blackbird US the male bobolink in black and white breeding plumage; skunk cabbage any of several foul-smelling N. American plants, esp. Symplocarpus foetidus and Lysichiton americanus, both of the arum family; skunk currant a foul-smelling N. American wild currant, Ribes glandulosum; skunk porpoise US the Atlantic white-sided dolphin, Lagenorhynchus acutus; skunkweed (a) = skunk cabbage above; (b) = sense 3 above; skunk works US colloq. a specialized division, laboratory, etc., producing experimental designs or ideas for a larger company or institution.
skunkdom noun (a) the fact or condition of being a skunk; (b) the domain of skunks, skunks collectively: M19.
skunkish adjective resembling a skunk; mean, contemptible: M19.
skunky adjective characteristic of or resembling a skunk; unpleasant; foul-smelling: L19.