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Skunk   /skəŋk/   Listen
noun
Skunk  n.  (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. 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.
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 foetidus) 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.



verb
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.)






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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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