wood pussy

wood pussy
noun
American musteline mammal typically ejecting an intensely malodorous fluid when startled; in some classifications put in a separate subfamily Mephitinae
• Syn: ↑skunk, ↑polecat
• Hypernyms: ↑musteline mammal, ↑mustelid, ↑musteline
• Hyponyms:

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noun

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Facetious.
a skunk.
[1895-1900, Amer.]

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wood pussy, or wood|puss|y «WUD PUS ee», noun, plural wood pussies or wood|puss|ies.
U.S. Informal. a skunk.

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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