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skunk

noun
🔊/skʌŋk/
🔊/skʌŋk/
(North American English also polecat)
Idioms
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  1. [countable] a small black and white North American animal that can produce a strong unpleasant smell to defend itself when it is attacked北美臭鼬
    Topics Animalsc1
  2. [uncountable] (slang) skunkweed (= a strong type of cannabis)烂醉如泥
    3. Word Originmid 17th cent.: from Abnaki segankw; variants occur in many other American Indian dialects. Abnaki is a group of two extinct Algonquian languages.
Idioms
(as) drunk as a skunk (North American English)
(British English, old-fashioned (as) drunk as a lord)
  1. (informal) very drunk烂醉如泥