Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Smelling like a skunk; stinking.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Like the skunk, especially in odor.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Resembling the
skunk , especially inodour .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Because I like to sleep with a window open - so my boudoir window is open all the time - I was smacked by a whiff of the skunkish redolence upon my retirement.
Archive 2004-08-01 2004
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Because I like to sleep with a window open - so my boudoir window is open all the time - I was smacked by a whiff of the skunkish redolence upon my retirement.
Pepe le Stench. 2004
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De Vonville's room, which was at the back of the house, and had no fuming ailantus by its windows on which to browse nightmares of skunkish flavor, afforded a better climate for a night's rest, notwithstanding the singular ideas which these travelled men, especially naturalists, have of comfort, in a civilized sense.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860 Various
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He heard a wolf howl, a cry filled with loneliness, yet with a shivering death-note in it; he caught the musky, skunkish odor of a fox that was stalking prey in the face of a whispering breath of wind; once, in a moment of dead stillness, he listened to the snap of teeth and the crackle of bones in one of the dark pits, where a fisher-cat -- with eyes that gleamed like coals of fire -- was devouring the warm and bleeding carcass of a mother partridge.
The Country Beyond James Oliver Curwood 1903
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