skunk

Meaning

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.

Synonyms

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

Translations

Stinktier

🦨

mouffette

🦨

Skunk

🦨

mofeta

🦨

stinkdier

🦨

puzzola

🦨

moffetta

🦨

zorrillo

🦨

zorrino

🦨

sconse

kokarca

μεφίτιδα

moufette

🦨

Conepatus humboldti

Pronounced as (IPA)

/skʌŋk/

Etymology

Cognate with 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.