skunky
adjEtymology From skunk + -y.
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Canada, US, Colloquial Mean, contemptible.
- Don't know when to expect reimbursements from Chloe. After all this time I consider her behavior skunky.1944, Patricia Highsmith, Her Diaries and Notebooks, Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2021, April 4
2
Resembling a skunk; especially, having a strong or unpleasant odor or (of food, drink) taste.
- Sure enough, he had the skunky odor of marijuana.2023, Brandon Taylor, The Late Americans, Jonathan Cape, page 116:
- One American brewer with trademark clear bottles developed a modified hop extract that’s free of the vulnerable hop acid, and this prevents its beer from going skunky.2004, Harold McGee, chapter 13, in On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen, Scribner, →ISBN:
- Derived terms
- skunkiness