Skunk



GRE

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GRE 红宝书

• n.臭鼬, 黄鼠狼

Webster Collegiate

kI. noun (plural skunks; also skunk)

• Etymology: earlier squuncke, from a Massachusett reflex of Algonquian *?eka?kwa, from ?ek- urinate + -a?kw fox, fox-like animal
• Date: 1634
• 1.
  • a. any of various common omnivorous black-and-white New World mammals (especially genus Mephitis) of the weasel family that have a pair of perineal glands from which a secretion of pungent and offensive odor is ejected
  • b. the fur of a skunk
• 2. an obnoxious or disliked person

II. transitive verb

• Date: 1843
• 1.
  • a. defeat
  • b. to prevent entirely from scoring or succeeding ; shut out
• 2. to fail to pay; also cheat

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