skunked
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.75 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
simple past and past participle of skunk
adj
Transitioning to a new meaning or usage and potentially controversial.
Example Sentences
- "It no longer mattered that I had been skunked in the marsh. I had prevailed on the ponds."
- "We found some skunked beer in the abandoned cabin, but it was not worth drinking."
- "A word is most hotly disputed in the middle part of this process: any use of it is likely to distract some readers. The new use seems illiterate to Group 1; the old use seems odd to Group 2. The word has become “skunked.”"
Usage
Inflected Forms
more skunked (comparative)
most skunked (superlative)