polecat

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Quotations 1.3.2 Derived terms 1.3.3 Translations 1.3.4 Synonyms 1.4 Anagrams

[edit] English

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /'pɔlkæt/

[edit] Etymology

Middle French pole hen + cat because of its fondness for poultry

[edit] Noun

Wikipedia

polecat (plural polecats)

1. a weasel-like animal of the genus Mustela, notably the European polecat, Mustela putorius.
2. (US regional): a skunk

[edit] Quotations

• 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 61

  By the little garden pergola open to the winds some fluttered peacocks were blotted nervelessly amid the dripping trees, their heads sunk back beneath their wings: while in the pergoda itself, like a fallen storm-cloud, lolled a negress, her levelled, polecat eyes semi-veiled by the nebulous alchemy of the rainbow.

[edit] Derived terms

• marbled polecat
• steppe polecat
• striped polecat
• European polecat

[edit] Translations

[edit] Synonyms

• fitch
• foumart
• skunk (US, regional)

[edit] Anagrams

• Alphagram: acelopt
• colpate