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skunk
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skunk
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Skunk
(gcide) | 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.]
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Skunk
(gcide) | 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.
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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.
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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.
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skunk
(wn) | 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] |
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as drunk as a skunk
(encz) | as drunk as a skunk,opilý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
hog-nosed skunk
(encz) | hog-nosed skunk, n: |
hognosed skunk
(encz) | hognosed skunk, n: |
hooded skunk
(encz) | hooded skunk, n: |
little spotted skunk
(encz) | little spotted skunk, n: |
rooter skunk
(encz) | rooter skunk, n: |
skunk bear
(encz) | skunk bear, n: |
skunk cabbage
(encz) | skunk cabbage, |
skunk-weed
(encz) | skunk-weed, n: |
skunkbush
(encz) | skunkbush, n: |
skunkweed
(encz) | skunkweed, n: |
spotted skunk
(encz) | spotted skunk, n: |
striped skunk
(encz) | striped skunk, n: |
Skunk
(gcide) | 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.
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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.
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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.
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Skunk bird
(gcide) | 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.
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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.
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Skunk blackbird
(gcide) | 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.
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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.
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Skunk cabbage
(gcide) | 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.
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Skunk porpoise
(gcide) | 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]Porpoise \Por"poise\, n. [OE. porpeys, OF. porpeis, literally,
hog fish, from L. porcus swine + piscis fish. See Pork, and
Fish.]
1. (Zool.) Any small cetacean of the genus Phoc[ae]na,
especially Phoc[ae]na communis, or {Phoc[ae]na
phoc[ae]na}, of Europe, and the closely allied American
species (Phoc[ae]na Americana). The color is dusky or
blackish above, paler beneath. They are closely allied to
the dolphins, but have a shorter snout. Called also
harbor porpoise, herring hag, puffing pig, and
snuffer.
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2. (Zool.) A true dolphin (Delphinus); -- often so called
by sailors.
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Skunk porpoise, or Bay porpoise (Zool.), a North American
porpoise (Lagenorhynchus acutus), larger than the common
species, and with broad stripes of white and yellow on the
sides. See Illustration in Appendix.
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Skunkball
(gcide) | Skunkball \Skunk"ball`\, n. (Zool.)
The surf duck.
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skunkhead
(gcide) | Scoter \Sco"ter\, n. [Cf. Prov. E. scote to plow up.] (Zool.)
Any one of several species of northern sea ducks of the genus
Oidemia.
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Note: The European scoters are Oidemia nigra, called also
black duck, black diver, surf duck; and the
velvet, or double, scoter (Oidemia fusca). The common
American species are the velvet, or white-winged,
scoter (Oidemia Deglandi), called also velvet duck,
white-wing, bull coot, white-winged coot; the
black scoter (Oidemia Americana), called also {black
coot}, butterbill, coppernose; and the surf scoter,
or surf duck (Oidemia perspicillata), called also
baldpate, skunkhead, horsehead, patchhead,
pishaug, and spectacled coot. These birds are
collectively called also coots. The females and young
are called gray coots, and brown coots.
[1913 Webster]Skunkhead \Skunk"head`\, n. (Zool.)
(a) The surf duck.
(b) A duck (Camptolaimus Labradorus) which formerly
inhabited the Atlantic coast of New England. It is now
supposed to be extinct. Called also Labrador duck, and
pied duck.
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Skunkhead
(gcide) | Scoter \Sco"ter\, n. [Cf. Prov. E. scote to plow up.] (Zool.)
Any one of several species of northern sea ducks of the genus
Oidemia.
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Note: The European scoters are Oidemia nigra, called also
black duck, black diver, surf duck; and the
velvet, or double, scoter (Oidemia fusca). The common
American species are the velvet, or white-winged,
scoter (Oidemia Deglandi), called also velvet duck,
white-wing, bull coot, white-winged coot; the
black scoter (Oidemia Americana), called also {black
coot}, butterbill, coppernose; and the surf scoter,
or surf duck (Oidemia perspicillata), called also
baldpate, skunkhead, horsehead, patchhead,
pishaug, and spectacled coot. These birds are
collectively called also coots. The females and young
are called gray coots, and brown coots.
[1913 Webster]Skunkhead \Skunk"head`\, n. (Zool.)
(a) The surf duck.
(b) A duck (Camptolaimus Labradorus) which formerly
inhabited the Atlantic coast of New England. It is now
supposed to be extinct. Called also Labrador duck, and
pied duck.
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Skunkish
(gcide) | Skunkish \Skunk"ish\, a.
Like the skunk, especially in odor.
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Skunktop
(gcide) | Skunktop \Skunk"top`\, n. (Zool.)
The surf duck.
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Skunkweed
(gcide) | Skunkweed \Skunk"weed`\, n. (Bot.)
Skunk cabbage.
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badger skunk
(wn) | badger skunk
n 1: large naked-muzzled skunk with white back and tail; of
southwestern North America and Mexico [syn: {hog-nosed
skunk}, hognosed skunk, badger skunk, rooter skunk,
Conepatus leuconotus] |
hog-nosed skunk
(wn) | hog-nosed skunk
n 1: large naked-muzzled skunk with white back and tail; of
southwestern North America and Mexico [syn: {hog-nosed
skunk}, hognosed skunk, badger skunk, rooter skunk,
Conepatus leuconotus] |
hognosed skunk
(wn) | hognosed skunk
n 1: large naked-muzzled skunk with white back and tail; of
southwestern North America and Mexico [syn: {hog-nosed
skunk}, hognosed skunk, badger skunk, rooter skunk,
Conepatus leuconotus] |
hooded skunk
(wn) | hooded skunk
n 1: of Mexico and southernmost parts of southwestern United
States [syn: hooded skunk, Mephitis macroura] |
little spotted skunk
(wn) | little spotted skunk
n 1: small skunk with a marbled black and white coat; of United
States and Mexico [syn: spotted skunk, {little spotted
skunk}, Spilogale putorius] |
rooter skunk
(wn) | rooter skunk
n 1: large naked-muzzled skunk with white back and tail; of
southwestern North America and Mexico [syn: {hog-nosed
skunk}, hognosed skunk, badger skunk, rooter skunk,
Conepatus leuconotus] |
skunk bear
(wn) | skunk bear
n 1: stocky shaggy-coated North American carnivorous mammal
[syn: wolverine, carcajou, skunk bear, Gulo luscus] |
skunk cabbage
(wn) | skunk cabbage
n 1: deciduous perennial low-growing fetid swamp plant of
eastern North America having minute flowers enclosed in a
mottled greenish or purple cowl-shaped spathe [syn: {skunk
cabbage}, polecat weed, foetid pothos, {Symplocarpus
foetidus}]
2: clump-forming deciduous perennial swamp plant of western
North America similar to Symplocarpus foetidus but having a
yellow spathe [syn: skunk cabbage, Lysichiton americanum] |
skunk-weed
(wn) | skunk-weed
n 1: tall herb of the Rocky Mountains having sticky leaves and
an offensive smell [syn: skunkweed, skunk-weed,
Polemonium viscosum] |
skunkbush
(wn) | skunkbush
n 1: deciduous shrub of California with unpleasantly scented
usually trifoliate leaves and edible fruit [syn:
squawbush, squaw-bush, skunkbush, Rhus trilobata] |
skunkweed
(wn) | skunkweed
n 1: tall herb of the Rocky Mountains having sticky leaves and
an offensive smell [syn: skunkweed, skunk-weed,
Polemonium viscosum] |
spotted skunk
(wn) | spotted skunk
n 1: small skunk with a marbled black and white coat; of United
States and Mexico [syn: spotted skunk, {little spotted
skunk}, Spilogale putorius] |
striped skunk
(wn) | striped skunk
n 1: most common and widespread North American skunk [syn:
striped skunk, Mephitis mephitis] |
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