skunk

FREQ #11369

n. 臭鼬, 臭鼬皮, 讨厌鬼 vt. 使惨败, 欺骗

发音

AU /skʌŋk/

词形变化

skunks 复数 skunked skunking skunks 三单 skunks skunking 现在分词 skunked 过去式 skunked 过去分词

别名

scunck

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Any of various small mammals, of most genera of the family Mephitidae, native to North and Central America, having a glossy black with a white coat and two musk glands at the base of the tail for emitting a noxious smell as a defensive measure.

    美国
  2. 2.

    A despicable person.

    美国 过时 贬义 俚语
  3. 3.

    Anything very bad; a stinker.

    美国 过时 贬义 俚语
  4. 4.

    A walkover victory in sports or board games, as when the opposing side is unable to score.

    美国 俚语
  5. 5.

    A win by thirty or more points. (A double skunk is sixty or more, a triple skunk ninety or more.)

    美国 游戏
  6. 1.

    A member of a hybrid skinhead and punk subculture.

    美国

    2011, Gerard DeGroot (quoting Brown), Seventies Unplugged […] mods, skins, suedes, smoothies, punks, skunks, rude boys, soul boys and headbangers […]

  7. 1.

    Clipping of skunkweed, type of marijuana.

    美国 可数 俚语 不可数
  8. 2.

    Any of the strains of hybrids of Cannabis sativa and Cannabis indica that may have THC levels exceeding those of typical hashish.

    美国 可数 不可数
v.
  1. 1.

    To defeat so badly as to prevent any opposing points.

    美国 俚语 及物

    I skunked him at cards.

    We fished all day but the lake skunked us.

  2. 2.

    To win by thirty or more points.

    美国 游戏
  3. 3.

    To go bad, to spoil.

    美国 不及物

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词源

Etymology tree Proto-Algonquian *šek- Proto-Algonquian *-a·kw- Proto-Algonquian *-a Proto-Algonquian *šeka·kwa Eastern Algonquianbor. English skunk Borrowed from an unattested Southern New England Eastern Algonquian word cognate with Abenaki segôgw (literally “he who squirts (musk) / urinates”), from Proto-Algonquian *šeka·kwa, from *šek- (“to urinate”). Doublet of Chicago.

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