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wood pussy

n. A skunk.

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wood pussy

n. American musteline mammal typically ejecting an intensely malodorous fluid when startled; in some classifications put in a separate subfamily Mephitinae [syn: skunk, polecat]

Usage examples of "wood pussy".

Grumbling, Raz burrowed under the limp gray pillow like a wood pussy going after a grub.

The Mephitis mephitis (also called polecat or zorrino, or sometimes wood pussy) gave the invader a beady look, then shuffled away to find another bed until evening.

The Mephitis mephitis (also called polecat or zorrino, or sometimes wood pussy) felt no kinship with this distorted version of itself.

The Mephitis mephitis (also called polecat, zorrino, and, by the less couth, wood pussy) was frightened by the jabs to its hindquarters.