skunkery
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A place, activity, or institution occupied or instituted by despicable or skunkish people.
Countable
Example Sentences
- "In fact, he will take pride in his calling , and will not “whimper” when asked about his skunkery."
- "In Michigan, a skunkery promises such profits that within a generation an aristocratic family will be founded as notable as that of the Astors or the Vanderbilts."
- "This is why it seems desirable to establish a skunkery close to or in a city. Even in the country the neighbors will help out. The farmers will be only too […]"
- "1983, John Masefield, Audrey Napier-Smith, Letters to Reyna, London : Buchan & Enright I felt that he had been murdered by the skunks in one of the skunkeries called ministries: & as I began to read for this, someone did a book on the theme […]"
- "a skunkery . Platforms, manifestoes, utopianisms, factional vendettas — all were trivial beside the sufferings in Flanders and on the seas, the lacerations inflicted both by the crook and the idealist."
- "Some Perry county Democrats believed the term skunk was a fitting description for the Republican Party, so they offered the noble Democratic citizens of Alabama versus the "skunkery” as a proper epithet for the 1870 elections."
Etymology
From skunk + -ery.