skunkとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /skʌŋk/
• 韻: -ʌŋk

語源 1

From an unattested Southern New England Algonquian word, cognate with Abenaki segôgw, segonku (“he who squirts (musk) / urinates”), from Proto-Algonquian *šeka·kwa, from *šek- (“to urinate”).

名詞

skunk (複数形 skunks)

1. Any of various small mammals, 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.
   • 1634, William Wood, “Of the Beasts that Live on the Land”, in New Englands Prospect. A True, Lively, and Experimentall Description of that Part of America, Commonly Called New England; […], London: […] Tho[mas] Cotes, for Iohn Bellamie, […], OCLC 837516736, 1st part, pages 22–23:

     The beaſts of offence be Squunckes, Ferrets, Foxes, vvhoſe impudence ſometimes drives them to the good vvives Hen rooſt, to fill their Paunch: ſome of theſe be blacke; their furre is of much eſteeme.

2. (slang, derogatory) A despicable person.
3. (slang, derogatory) Anything very bad; a stinker.
   • 1987, English Journal (volume 76, issues 5-8, page 52)

     On the other hand, many critics contend that in terms of literary quality, many of the multiple-storyline books are true skunks.

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

   Coordinate term: shutout

5. (cribbage) A win by 30 or more points. (A double skunk is 60 または more, a triple skunk 90 または more.)

派生語

• drunk as a skunk
• skunk at a garden party
• skunky

派生した語

• → Czech: skunk
• → Danish: skunk
• → German: Skunk
• → Finnish: skunkki
• → French: skunks
• → Icelandic: skunkur
• → Japanese: スカンク (sukanku)
• → Norwegian: skunk
• → Polish: skunks
• → Russian: скунс (skuns)
• → Slovak: skunk
• → Swedish: skunk