Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling a skunk or its odour.

Etymologies

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skunk +‎ -like

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Examples

  • What with the choker, earrings and skunklike green stripe through her big platinum hair, she could be the headline act at a Lilliputian Tropicana.

    Honey, They Blew Up Barbie 2008

  • With her arms and legs still fluttering with adrenaline and a fuzzy skunklike taste souring her mouth, she realized it didn't feel like a dream at all.

    Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2004

  • With her arms and legs still fluttering with adrenaline and a fuzzy skunklike taste souring her mouth, she realized it didn't feel like a dream at all.

    Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2004

  • They had musk glands that left behind a skunklike odor and were a bane to the clan even worse than the hyena, who was as much predator as scavenger and didn't depend for his survival on the kills of others.

    The Clan of the Cave Bear Auel, Jean M. 1980

  • While we love Christina Aguilera for her chameleonic beauty tricks, we're not totally enamored with her skunklike highlights.

    Lead Stories from AOL 2009

  • While we love Christina Aguilera for her chameleonic beauty tricks, we're not totally enamored with her skunklike highlights.

    Lead Stories from AOL 2009

  • His black hair was shot, skunklike, with a white streak—one he’d possessed since a night nine years ago, when the ghost of his grandfather had appeared at the foot of his bed and led him into the field of paranormal investigation.

    Second Glance Jodi Picoult 2003

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