skunkery

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A place where skunks are raised. countable
    — In fact, he will take pride in his calling , and will not “whimper” when asked about his skunkery.
  2. A place, activity, or institution occupied or instituted by despicable or skunkish people. countable
    — 1983, John Masefield, Audrey Napier-Smith, Letters to Reyna, London : Buchan & Enright I felt that he had been murdered by the skunks in one of the skunkeries called ministries: & as I began to read for this, someone did a book on the theme […]
  3. skunkish behavior. uncountable
    — "Treachery? You meant skunkery, didn't you? "
  4. A bad smell. uncountable
    — The inflation in business, the blah in economics, the asinine instruction in literature, are all of a perfume, a whorefume, a skunkery, of one smell, of one root at bottom.·

词形变化

skunkeries plural

词源

From skunk + -ery.
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