Skunk

Definition: Skunk

Skunk

Noun

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!".

2. A strong-smelling plant from whose dried leaves a number of euphoriant and hallucinogenic drugs are prepared.

3. A soft drug consisting of the dried leaves of the hemp plant; smoked or chewed for euphoric effect.

4. American musteline mammal typically ejecting an intensely malodorous fluid when startled; in some classifications put in a separate subfamily Mephitinae.

Verb

1. Defeat by a lurch, as in certain card games.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "skunk" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1841. (references)

Note: Skunk \Skunk\, noun. [Contr. from the Abenaki (American Indian) seganku.]. (references)

Public Administration

Slang

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Skunk

Drunkenness

Drunk as a lord, drunk as a skunk, drunk as a piper, drunk as a fiddler, drunk as Chloe, drunk as an owl, drunk as David's sow, drunk as a wheelbarrow.

Crosswords: Skunk

Czech (skunk), German (polecat, skunk), Portuguese (skunk), Swedish (skunk).

When you weighed one hundred and sixty-eight pounds you were beautiful. You coulda been another Billy Conn, and that skunk we got you for a manager, he brought you along too fast (On the Waterfront; writing credit: Malcolm Johnson; Budd Schulberg)

Lisa, I got sprayed by a skunk! Let me rub it off on your sweaters (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

Your brain as half as quick as your mouth, skunk stool, you'd be a friggin' twenty-star general by now. (Heartbreak Ridge; writing credit: James Carabatsos)

No, skunk pits, it isn't (Ed, Edd n' Eddy; writing credit: Jan Dirchsen; Mikkel Dyrting)

Uhh. It smells like a skunk that came out of the ass of another skunk (Everybody Loves Raymond; writing credit: Joe Bolster)

A skunk sat on a stump and thunk the stump stunk, but the stump thunk the skunk stunk. (references; author: unknown)

Dead Skunk (1973)

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Books

• Lizzy and Skunk (reference)

• Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works (reference)

• Lockheed Secret Projects: Inside the Skunk Works (Colortech) (reference)

• Skunk (Wild America) (reference)

• Skunk at Hemlock Circle (Backyard Readalongs) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Pepe Le Pew's Skunk Tales (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Dubbed on Planet Skunk [IMPORT] (reference)

• Rhythmical Skunk Abuse [CD-SINGLE] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Punky Skunk (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Plate 5. The High-Finned Killer. Orca rectipinnis, Cope. The Skunk Porpoise or Bay Porpoise. Lagenorynchus gubernator, Cope (L. perspicillatus, Cope). Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection.

Skunk Cabbage. Credit: T. Hogervorst.

Yellow Skunk Cabbage (Lysichitum americanum) found at Three Horn Campground along Tiller Highway. Credit: Terry Tuttle.

President Lyndon B. Johnson pulling a skunk out of his hat. Credit: Library of Congress.

Skunk cabbage, ferns and alders keep this farmer in the hills hard at work as he attempts to clear an abandoned homestead. Oregon. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

One time Pa got mad at a skunk under the house

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

The skunk lives every state in the United States except Alaska and Hawaii. (references)

Any wild mammal, like a raccoon, skunk, fox, coyote, or bat, can have rabies and transmit it to people. (references)

You will never forget that odor once you smell it. It comes from 2 glands located near the tail of the skunk. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "skunk": badger skunk ♦ drunk as a skunk ♦ hognosed skunk ♦ hooded skunk ♦ little spotted skunk ♦ Patagonian skunk ♦ rooter skunk ♦ skunk bear ♦ skunk bird ♦ skunk blackbird ♦ SKUNK CABBAGE ♦ skunk oil ♦ skunk porpoise ♦ spotted skunk ♦ striped skunk. Additional references.

Beginning with "skunk": skunk-drunk, skunk-stripe, skunk-weed.

Albanian

zdrugoj (smooth, whop), qelbës (ferret, Fitch, fitchet, Fitchew, polecat). (various references)

Arabic 

‏هزم (bear down, beat, best, checkmate, clobber, defeat, dish, dump, finish, floor, foil, go down, hold down, knock off, knock out, lick, outdo, outvote, overcome, overpower, pip, sink, smash, stop, thrash, vanquish, vote down, whip, wipe out, wipe the floor with smb.), ‏لا يدفع فاتورة كذا, ‏طرحه أرضا (bowl over, cast), ‏خدع (bamboozle, beguile, betray, bilk, bitch, bite, blind, bluff, brown, bubble, camouflage, catch, cheat, chisel, con, crook, deceive, deception, decoy, defraud, delude, diddle, do, dupe, entrap, fall for, feint, fiddle, fob, fool, fox, get round, give the lie to, gull, gyp, hoax, hocus pocus, humbug, illusory, impose, intrigue, jape, job, leg pull, lure, mislead, mock, mystify, nick, overreach, pitch, play a trick, pose, prank, pull a fast one, pull his leg, ream, rook, sell, settle his hash, skin, slang, stick, string along, swank, swindle, take for a ride, take in, trick, victimize, wile), ‏جلد الظربان الأمريكي, ‏الظربان الأمريكي, ‏شخص فظ (bear, oaf, roughneck, rowdy, savage), ‏شخص حقير (beast, insignificancy, scrub, stinkard, whelp), ‏شخص بغيض (anathema, hornet, misanthropic). (various references)

Bulgarian 

сразявам, скункс, кожа от скункс, не плащам (pass), мерзавец (miscreant, whoreson), подлец (bastard, blackguard, caitiff, creep, dastard, hangdog, ratface, recreant, reprobate, scoundrel, sneak, sneaker, snot, twerp, villain, wretch, yellow dog), изигравам (bamboozle, cheat, con, diddle, do smb., fob, hoodwink, let in, milk, outwit, play out, prey, sell, skin, suck in, trepan, trick, trim). (various references)

Chinese 

臭鼬 . (various references)

Czech

skunk, lump (bad lot, blackguard, heel, knave, louse, rascal, villain, wretch). (various references)

Danish

skunk. (various references)

Dutch

stinkdier. (various references)

Esperanto

mefito. (various references)

Farsi 

فریفتن (Bewitch, Captivate, Charm, Deceive, Decoy, Doodle, Enchant, Entice, Hustle, Intrigue, Inveigle, Jilt, Lure, Poop, Seduce, Tempt, Wile), ادم بدرفتاریاپست , شکست دادن (Defeat, Drub, Floor, Outdo, Smash, Smite, Trounce, Vanquish, Worst). (various references)

Finnish

haisunäätä. (various references)

French

mouffette. (various references)

German

Stinktier, skunk (polecat). (various references)

Greek 

κουνάβι (badger, ferret, marten, stoat), μουστελίδα, παλιάνθρωποσ (blackguard, knave, miscreant, rascal, rotter, scalawag, scamp, scapegrace, scoundrel), είδοσ κουναβίου. (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"ביס (beat, checkmate, defeat, floor, thrash), חלאת א�"ם (scum), צח� ן. (various references)

Hungarian

utolsó fráter, szkunksz szőrme, szkunksz (polecat), ronda fráter (stinkard), piszkos csirkefogó, kapcabetyár (rotter), bűzös borz (polecat), aljas fráter, alávaló fráter. (various references)

Italian

puzzola (Fitchew, polecat). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

鼬 (ermine, mink, weasel), スカッシング関数 (scalar, scallop, scalp treatment, scampi, scandium, Scaramouche, scatology, scholarship, scull, sculpture, skiing, squashing function), スケ番 (bar, energy, free-standing bar, grandstand play, grandstanding, leader of a female gang, road reflector, scoop, scope, scoping, scopophilia, score, scoreboard, scorebook, scorecard, scorer, scoring position, Scotch, Scotch egg, Scotch tape, Scotch terrier, Scotch tweed, Scotch whiskey, Scotland, Scotland Yard, scotophobin, Scott, shovel, Skopolamin, spade, squall, squawker, stability, stabilizer, staccato, stack, stacking permanent wave, stack-object, stack-pointer, stackware, stadium, stadium jumper, staff, stag film, stag party, stagflation, Stalinism, stamina, stamp, stamp collection, stance, stand, standard, standard number, standards, standby, standby passenger, stand-in, standing start, standing wave, standoff, standpoint, stand-up collar, Stanford, stanza, star, star guide, star king, star player, star sapphire, star system, Star Trek, Star Wars, Star Watching, starch, stardom, stardust, staring lineup, starlet, starlight, Stars and Stripes, start, start dash, start line, starter, starting block, starting member, starting pitcher, static, statistics, statue, Sterling block, Sterling engine, stout, stub, studio, studless tire, study, stuff, stuffed egg, stun, stun gun, stunt car, stunt man, style, style file, stylebook, styling, stylish, stylist, stylus, stymie). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

いたち (ermine, mink, weasel), スコンク , スカンク . (various references)

Manx

fynney breinnag, breinnag (smelly person). (various references)

Maya

paay (bullfighter, to borrow). (various references)

Papago

uhpio (walnut tree). (various references)

Pig Latin

unkskay.(various references)

Portuguese

skunk, pessoa má, jaritataca, jaguaré, esculhambar, doninha-fedorenta (polecat). (various references)

Romanian

sconcs, ticãlos (a bad egg, base, cad, canting, cur, dark, dirty, felon, foul, heel, hound, impious, kite, knave, knavish, knavishly, low-minded, mean, meanly, miscreant, paltry, perverse, picaroon, rapscallion, rascal, rascally, recreant, reprobate, ruffian, scab, scabby, scamp, scoundrel, scurvy, serpentine, shabby, sneak, sneaking, vile, villain, villainous, wretch, wretched), nãpârcã (asp, grass snake, viper), mârşav (despicable, dirty, grovelling, infamous, mean, scummy, shameful), liftã (heathen). (various references)

Russian 

скунс. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

tvor (fitchew, polecat), prevariti (bamboozle, beguile, bilk, cheat, chicane, chisel, chouse, circumvent, con, deceive, diddle, double cross, flimflam, fool, get round, gyp, hoodwink, mulct, rook, rope, rope in, screw, set up, stick, string along, take in, trick, victimize), potući do nogu (cream, rout, smear). (various references)

Spanish

mofeta (afterdamp, blackdamp, damp, polecat). (various references)

Swedish

skunk, kräk (beast, goof, moron, mug, rotter, worm, wretch). (various references)

Thai

กัญชาที่แรงชนิ�"หนึ่ง. (various references)

Turkish

yenmek (annihilate, bear down, bear the bell, beat, beat all hollow, best, break, carry away the bell, checkmate, circumvent, clobber, confound, conquer, cut out, defeat, discomfit, down, floor, get the better of, give a beating, knock out, land, lick, master, outbox, outclass, outdo, outgo, overpower, pip, prevail, slam, smash, subjugate, surmount, swamp, thrash, trim, triumph, trounce, vanquish, wallop, wear down, whelm, whip, whop, win over, wipe the floor with smb., worst), mahvetmek (bang up, bankrupt, barbarize, be ruin of smb., beat smb. hollow, bring to ruin, bugger, bugger up, canker, cook, corrupt, cut up, damn, destroy, devastate, dish, do for, exterminate, finish, kill, knock into a cocked hat, lay in ruins, lay low, make havoc of, play havoc with, pulverize, queer, ruin, sink, slaughter, smash, smash up, split, take smb. to the cleaners, undo, wallop, work havoc, wreck), kokarca (Fitch, Fitchew, polecat), alçak herif (bugger, dastard, rascal, scoundrel, spalpeen, swab, wretch), aşağılık kimse (bounder, caitiff, dastard, dirty dog, heel, jerk, louse, no good, reptile, reptilian, snot, swob). (various references)

Ukrainian

скунс (wood pussy), обіграти із сухим рахунком, негідник (blackguard, cad, caitiff, cullion, gallows, miscreant, niddering, pimp, rascal, reprobate, scoundrel, thief, varlet, wretch). (various references)

Vietnamese 

người đáng khinh bỉ. (various references)

Welsh

drewgi. (various references)

Yucatec

payooch. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "skunk": skunked, skunking, skunks. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Skunk" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dkunk, Saunk, schunk, sconk, scun, scunk, sjunk, skank, skanky, skek, skenk, skunky. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: sunk.

-2 letters: nus, sun, uns.

-3 letters: nu, un, us.

+1 letter: skunks.

+2 letters: skunked, unkinks.

+3 letters: buckskin, knuckles, skulking, skunking.

+4 letters: buckskins, kerplunks, kinkajous, knockouts, knucklers.

+5 letters: knackwurst, knockwurst, knuckliest.