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noun
1.
a small North American mammal, Mephitis mephitis, of the weasel family, having a black coat with a white, V-shaped stripe on the back, and ejecting a fetid odor when alarmed or attacked.
2.
any of several related or similar animals. Compare hog-nosed skunk, spotted skunk.
3.
Informal. a thoroughly contemptible person.
4.
U.S. Navy Slang. an unidentified ship or target.
verb (used with object)
5.
Slang. to defeat thoroughly in a game, especially while keeping an opponent from scoring: The team skunked the favorites in the crucial game.
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Origin:
1625–35, Americanism; < the Massachusett reflex of Proto-Algonquian *šeka·kwa (derivative of *šek- urinate + -a·kw fox, foxlike animal
1625–35, Americanism; < the Massachusett reflex of Proto-Algonquian *šeka·kwa (derivative of *šek- urinate + -a·kw fox, foxlike animal
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skunk
1634, squunck, from a southern New England Algonquian language (probably Abenaki) seganku, from Proto-Algonquian */eka:kwa/, from */ek-/ "to urinate" + */-a:kw/ "fox." As an insult, attested from 1841. Skunk cabbage is attested from 1751.
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