Animal whose spray packs a powerful stench

Usage examples of skunk.

Mephitis mephitis, the striped skunk, but rather with Gulo gulo, the wolverine.

They would fall desperately in love with polecats and skunks if endowed with small talk.

I once heard a bushman say that no one but a skunk would be guilty of this tobacco trick--that it is about the meanest trick a man could be capable of--because it spoils the chances of the next hard-up swaggy who asks the victim for tobacco.

By sunlight or moonlight its splintered grey crest is the one object which, in spite of wapiti and bighorn, skunk and grizzly, unfailingly arrests the eyes.

If you were not all skunks and cowards youd be suffering with them instead of battening here on the plunder of the poor.

The story was Peaty was in an alley behind anapartment building, drunk as a skunk, looking through the drapes of a rear unitbedroom.

How could she explain to Cassie that at the grand and elegant inaugural musicale, some cruel prankster had set loose a skunk at the back of her makeshift concert hall?

Frank Lutz, the city manager of Scranton-in-flight, reminded Chris instantly of a skunk-but by this Chris meant not at all what a city boy would have meant by a skunk.

Good thing Frank Laramie died before he could know what skunks his boys turned out to be.

That skunk, Nevell Blackthorn, had been a burr in his side since they were kids.

Rabbits, squirrels, skunks, possums, raccoons, a million birds, a frightening assortment of green and black snakesall nonpoisonous I was reassuredand dozens of cats.

Just my luck, Leah was still hanging around the apartment when I arrived, and the scent of her body washa heady blend of lavender, rose, hibiscus, and every flower ever createdmade my vanilla stuff smell like skunk oil in comparison.

The Washoe tribe is going to get twelve acres on Lake Tahoe at Skunk Harbor.

He was so strange he screamed at insects, and he had mistaken a very ordinary skunk for a mutantso Hooper had wheezily whispered to them.

It was all she could manage with her lungs burning from exertion and skunk gas and her elbows and knees itching as badly as her ears from the irritant darts, but she knew better than to scratch at them because that only spread the allergens, and meanwhile she had to bite her lip hard and dig her nails into her palms to stop herself from scratching.