skunker
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Again the old fellow chuckled and answered, "A counter with em? Well I guess so. That's my business, I am what we tarm up here a skunker. Me and Gineral Grant, and Gineral Lee have it hot and heavy with 'em every day."
- "I have known a few old skunkers to bleed skunks and other fur-bearers with their knives. This leaves the skin a purer white than any other way of killing."
- "Mel is a trapper too and honest and a skunker. I get his fur catch next winter for his interest in my queen breedin business and he breeds from my queen as we have now named Eureka Suprema."
- "Steve poured it on. He told about how he used to trap skunks to make spending money and how he and the other boys who also were skunkers kept running off women teachers because they couldn't tolerate the peculiar perfumery they collected in their clothing during their appointed rounds to their traps."
- "We trapped the skunks or simply collected them as they foraged at night. The most successful and persistent of our youthful skunkers was our next-door neighbor, Charlie Escobar, who preferred to track them down on foot."
Etymology
From skunk + -er.