skunk

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. (US) Any of various small mammals, of most genera of the family Mephitidae, native to North and Central America, having a glossy black with a white coat and two musk glands at the base of the tail for emitting a noxious smell as a defensive measure.
2. (US, dated, derogatory, slang) A despicable person.
3. (US, dated, derogatory, slang) Anything very bad; a stinker.
4. (US, slang) A walkover victory in sports or board games, as when the opposing side is unable to score.
5. (US) A win by thirty or more points. (A double skunk is sixty or more, a triple skunk ninety or more.)

Verb

1. (US, slang, transitive) To defeat so badly as to prevent any opposing points.
2. (US) To win by thirty or more points.
3. (US, intransitive) To go bad, to spoil.

Concepts

mouffette

🦨

sconse

moufette

🦨

renardeau

putois

skunks

🦨

blanchissage

sens

pétomane

canaille

moufette mouffette

fumée

herbe

marie-jeanne

miette

rat

🐀

mofette

sconce

Synonymes

rat

🐀

locoweed

stinkpot

rotter

polecat

gage

pot

Mary Jane

sess

green goddess

grass

dope

dirty dog

bum

coward

scum bag

so-and-so

smoke

stinker

weed

crumb

wood pussy

git

puke

lurch

knave

mephitis

shutout

sens

lowlife

flower

🌸

fir

brock

drubbing

broccoli

🥦

bash

ditch

boom

💥

ding

dew

boo

bar

ashes

homegrown

herb

🌿

defeat

hooch

hound

kali

hemp

Traductions

Stinktier

🦨

Skunk

🦨

mofeta

🦨

stinkdier

🦨

puzzola

🦨

moffetta

🦨

zorrillo

🦨

zorrino

🦨

μεφίτιδα

kokarca

cangambá

🦨

Conepatus humboldti

gambá

puzzone

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/skʌŋk/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Appartenant à Western Abnaki: segôgw

In summary

From an unattested Southern New England Algonquian word, cognate with Abenaki segôgw, segonku (“he who squirts (musk) / urinates”), from Proto-Algonquian *šeka·kwa, from *šek- (“to urinate”). Doublet of Chicago.