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Skunk   /skəŋk/   Listen
Skunk

noun
1.
A person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible.  Synonyms: bum, crumb, dirty dog, git, lowlife, puke, rat, rotter, scum bag, so-and-so, stinker, stinkpot.  "Kill the rat" , "Throw the bum out" , "You cowardly little pukes!" , "The British call a contemptible person a 'git'"
2.
A defeat in a game where one side fails to score.  Synonym: shutout.
3.
Street names for marijuana.  Synonyms: dope, gage, grass, green goddess, locoweed, Mary Jane, pot, sens, sess, smoke, weed.
4.
American musteline mammal typically ejecting an intensely malodorous fluid when startled; in some classifications put in a separate subfamily Mephitinae.  Synonyms: polecat, wood pussy.
verb
1.
Defeat by a lurch.  Synonym: lurch.



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"Skunk" Quotes from Famous Books



... "You bet,—the yellow skunk! Imagine a fine girl like Lottie Mays being done to death by that; and every man that ever saw her just ...
— The Spoilers of the Valley • Robert Watson

... wife, was his continual victim. She was disgustingly ugly, virtuous, and foolish, a little humpbacked, and stunk like a skunk, even from a distance. All these things did not hinder M. le Prince from being jealous of her even to fury up to the very last. The piety, the indefatigable attention of Madame la Princesse, her sweetness, her novice-like submission, could not guarantee her from frequent ...
— Marguerite de Navarre - Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois Queen of Navarre • Marguerite de Navarre

... seals coming out under the curtain behind him. It took Nat just two jumps to get off the stage. An attendant came out and captured the seal. Nat came back. "Well," he said, scratching his head; "I have followed every animal on earth but a skunk and a lizard, and now I have got that. Humph; Professor Woodward's Trained Shad. I think I ...
— Continuous Vaudeville • Will M. Cressy

... to call the dog off the trail. That camp scavenger, the American skunk, is the mildest mannered little creature in the world—providing he is left strictly alone. Being timid and otherwise defenseless, God has given him ...
— The Girls of Central High in Camp - The Old Professor's Secret • Gertrude W. Morrison

... Squire went on eating his supper for some minutes without comment; but just as we finished, he said, "Boys, where did we put our skunk fence ...
— A Busy Year at the Old Squire's • Charles Asbury Stephens


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