Word Type

Noun

Verb

The word "skunk" can be used as noun and verb.

Word Relationships

Typical Location

forest

Capable Of

smell pretty bad spray

Coordinate Terms

shutout

Derived Terms

badger skunk big skunk drunk as a skunk drunker than a skunk hog-nosed skunk hooded skunk hydrophobia skunk knock a skunk off a gut wagon rooter skunk skunk ape skunk at a garden party skunk at the garden party skunk bear (Gulo gulo skunk blackbird skunk cabbage) skunk currant skunk dolphin skunk grass skunk pig skunk porpoise skunk pox skunk spruce skunk tail skunk tree skunk turtle skunk up skunk works skunk-weed skunkball skunkbill skunkbird skunkbush skunked term skunkhead skunkless skunklike skunkweed skunkworks skunky spotted skunk stink a skunk off a gut wagon striped skunk

Derived From

punk skinhead

Etymologically Related To

skunkweed squunck

Context

beer cribbage slang

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

cannabis defeat defeat disagreeable person ganja get the better of licking marihuana marijuana mustelid musteline musteline mammal overcome unpleasant person

Type Of (IsA)

crepuscular animal mammal mustelidae musteline mammal quadruped

Receives Action

kept as pet

Related Terms

polecat

Related Terms

animal bad bad smell black black white cannabis indica cannabis sativa cat go bad hashish hybrid mammal mephitidae mephitis musk gland native noxious polecat punk racoon rodent shutout skinhead smell smells smelly smelly animal smelly mammal smelly rodent spilogale spoil stinky stinky animal strip stripe striped striped animal subculture thc white white strip white stripe wild

Synonym Network

lurch pot rotter shutout

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.