Synonyms for skunk

Most common

smoke · grass · weed · loco weed · rat · stinker

Synonyms by meaning

Noun

Definitions

1. n. 1

   Any of various mammals of the subfamily Mephitinae, native to North and Central America, having a glossy black coat with white markings and two musk glands at the base of the tail for emitting a noxious smell as a defensive measure.

2. n. 2

   A despicable person.

3. n. 3

   Anything very bad; a stinker.

Related words

Word family

skunkbag skunkbear skunkbush

Phrases

skunk cabbage badger skunk hog-nosed skunk hydrophobia skunk skunk ape skunk grease skunk oil skunk spruce

Forms

Plural

skunks → weeds, smokes, grasses, cannabises…

Example sentences

• smoke Look at that smoke. That building must be on fire.
• grass The notice in the park said, "Keep off the grass."
• weed Sami knew that Layla was going to smoke some weed.
• rat He hollowed out a mountain only to pull out a rat.

Popularity over time

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters

pot¹, rat¹, bum¹, git¹, ses

4 letters

weed¹, dope¹, puke¹, gage¹, sens¹

5 letters

smoke¹, grass¹, crumb¹

6 letters

rotter²

7 letters

scumbag², shutout², stinker

8 letters

cannabis³, stinkpot

9 letters

whitewash²

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (rotter² = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français

mouffette

Italiano

moffetta

Español

mofeta

Deutsch

Stinktier