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Skunk
The noun skunk names a New World mammal of the Mephitidae family. Skunks resemble badgers in size and coloring. Both animals have black fur with white stripes. Skunks are notorious for spraying antagonists with a foul-smelling liquid secreted by the skunks’ anal glands. Skunk enters English as squunck in the early 17th century. Squunck is thought to derive from an unattested Algonquian word.