Polecat

Noun

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

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.

Derived terms

 * marbled polecat
 * steppe polecat
 * striped polecat
 * European polecat

Thesaurus
Cape polecat, animal, ape, bar, bear, beast, cavy, chimp, chimpanzee, coon, cur, dog, ferret, foumart, glutton, groundhog, guinea pig, hedgehog, hound, hyena, insect, mongrel, monk, monkey, mousehound, opossum, pig, porcupine, possum, prairie dog, quill pig, raccoon, reptile, rotten egg, serpent, skunk, snake, stink ball, stink bomb, stinkard, stinker, stinkpot, swine, varmint, vermin, viper, weasel, whelp, whistle-pig, wolverine, woodchuck, worm, zoril

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

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Armenian:
 * Basque: ipurtats
 * Belarusian: тхор лясны/ чорны
 * Bosnian:
 * Breton: pudask
 * Bulgarian: прът (pr"t)
 * Catalan: turó
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: ilder
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: putoro
 * Estonian: tuhkur
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Friulian: puçul, pufe, pudîs, spuç
 * Galician: tourón
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: firéad
 * Italian:
 * Latgalian:
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: sesks


 * Lithuanian:
 * Lower Sorbian: twoŕ
 * Macedonian: обичен твор (običen tvor)
 * Norwegian: ilder
 * Occitan: catpudre
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: toirăo
 * Romani: mutsa-kandini
 * Romanian: dihor
 * Romansch: telpi
 * Russian: (hor'ók) ,
 * Sami: čáhppesbuoidda
 * Sardinian: pùtzola
 * Scottish Gaelic: feòcallan
 * Serbian: твор (-мрки) (tvor (-mrki))
 * Slovak: tchor obyčajný
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: тхiр лiсовий (thir lisovij), чорний (čornij)
 * Upper Sorbian: tchór
 * Walloon:
 * Welsh: ffwlbart
 * West Frisian: murd

Synonyms

 * fitch
 * foumart
 * skunk (US, regional)

Anagrams

 * colpate