skunkie
nounEtymology From skunk + -ie.
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Childish, Diminutive Diminutive of skunk.
- "Here, skunkie, skunkie" coaxed Winkie in a shaking voice.1948, Dean Marshall, The Invisible Island, Junior Literary Guild, page 139:
- Finally, after much pressing, she said, "I tiptoe into the room quietly saying 'Good skunkie, good skunkie, don't spray me.'"1994, Forest Farmer, volume 53, Forest Farmer Association, page 21:
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- By this time Dad and I couldn't smell each other, much less a little skunkie. I got a bucket and followed him to the chicken house and leaned into that smokie, skunky smellin interior.2007, Pat Lorett, To-1944: Oklahoma Farm Life, Tate Publishing, →ISBN, page 310: