Definitions
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- adjective having an
unpleasant odor - adjective Having a
smell ofskunk (a type of marijuana)
Etymologies
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Examples
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It works especialy well for that skunky old buck meat.
Ground Venision 2009
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It works especialy well for that skunky old buck meat.
Ground Venision 2009
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She always drank McDougal's -- an imported brand that comes in a green bottle and has a slightly skunky aroma.
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It looks salvageable ... until she turns around to reveal a white, skunky stripe running down the back!
Una LaMarche: Project Runway Episode 6 Recap: Bridesmaid Revisited 2010
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Obviously, if you uploaded skunky material it would stink and if you uploaded a gem it would glimmer.
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Interview: Mark Levine on Self-Publishing 2008
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Keep those Canadians with their socialized medicine and their skunky beer out.
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But in the context of the holiest of holidays, picking up a cheap case of skunky beer seems inadequate, possibly even sinful -- you can almost hear Jesus moaning from behind his boulder, "I died for your sins, and you celebrate by drinking Miller High Life?"
Boozing On Easter Sunday: Drinks That Won't Ruin Your Salvation 2010
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And just as marijuana has pervaded our national culture, so too is its skunky smoke as much a part of the air in our college campuses as the smell of Easy Mac.
Her Campus: Do College Girls Smoke Marijuana? Her Campus 2010
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But SABMiller, which makes Pilsner Urquell, Peroni and Grolsch in addition to Miller and Coors brands, says its empirical evidence shows that females are the superior sex when it comes to detecting such undesirable chemicals as 3-methyl-2-butene-1-thiol, which makes beer "skunky."
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First off, please stop using the term “random mutation,” it makes you sound foolish, much in the way a person using the terms “wet water” or “skunky-smelling skunk” sounds foolish.
alexz commented on the word skunky
describing beer gone bad.
October 15, 2017