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Weasel's cousin
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polecat
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 14c., from cat (n.); the first element is perhaps Anglo-French pol , from Old French poule "fowl, hen" (see pullet (n.)); so called because it preys on poultry [Klein]. The other alternative is that the first element is from Old French pulent "stinking," ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Polecat was an early band of singer-guitarist Ted Stevens of Omaha, Nebraska . He later went on to form Lullaby For The Working Class who recorded for Bar/None Records and Saddle Creek Records . He is currently a guitarist in Saddle Creek's Cursive and ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A weasel-like animal of the genus ''Mustela'', notably the (vern: European polecat), ''Mustela putorius''. 2 (context US dialect English) A skunk.
Usage examples of polecat.
Chance waved the Polecat back on a line parallel to its first crossing, then waved the bulldozers forward to pile in more snow.
Ended up in this old cabin, outside a place called Polecat Springs, just south of Beauford.
I drove slowly through the tiny village of modest wood-frame homes, looking for the post office, which turned out to be a counter in the corner of the Polecat Springs General Store and Tattoo Emporium.
It flowed from a steamy, bubbling pond that I knew also was Polecat Springs.
Tranter, who was now steaming like a geyser and smelling like a polecat, choked and blinked his eyes.
They saw stoats hunting again - though not in packs - and an animal they took to be a polecat, making off through reeds with a mallard in its jaws.
Watson was a well-known polecat, he had knew him personal, but Edgar J.
Finally, a young polecat terrier was thrown into a state of great excitement the first time he ever saw one of these animals, while a spaniel remained perfectly calm.
Dirty tricks, faked terrorist attacks, lies, threats, and fear tactics of every polecat stripe.
And thus it came to pass that in the dusk of a November evening the Russian boy, murmuring a few of the prayers of his Church for luck, gave hasty but decent burial to a large polecat under the lilac trees at Hoopington.
He watched the sleeping wanagan being dragged across and coupled to the massive ice-orange tractor, glanced round at the little, fast-throbbing Polecats, then climbed into the cab of the bulldozer nearest the doors.
I dunno what the idee is, but these Tomahawk polecats has double-crossed somebody!
It looked jest about like a cabin ought to look where they has jest been a fight between seventeen polecats and a mountain lion.
By now, the three women had probably turned on one another like polecats, each one slowly going out of her mind with terror.
They would fall desperately in love with polecats and skunks if endowed with small talk.