Dark brown mustelid of woodlands of Eurasia that gives off an unpleasant odor when threatened.
American musteline mammal typically ejecting an intensely malodorous fluid when startled; in some classifications put in a separate subfamily Mephitinae.
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Perhaps the most unique and clever food conserver is the American polecat.
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The Master saw her expression, and saw Pantalaimon's polecat eyes flash red.
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The old woman gazed at him with her little polecat eyes, and answered:-
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Also, it hurt, and the polecat did not lose his hold.
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It stinks like a polecat, and is undoubtedly full of all creeping things.
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The polecat is also practically extinct, though occasional specimens are said to occur.
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The polecat said nothing, perhaps because he had nothing to say.
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He's a polecat, and I saved him from being put down.
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I suppose the English word is polecat, but it doesn't say as much.
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Well, at least now I know what a polecat smells like.
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The wasp stings, and the polecat stinks, and the lion tears its prey asunder.
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She recoiled like a coiled snake, and the polecat felt fire in one loin.
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We tried cayenne pepper and n-butyl mercaptan-themain ingredient in "polecat essence."
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He can be a moth when she's spying or a polecat when she's fighting.
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But he died!-shot as a man would shoot a jay or a polecat!
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If so, so much the worse for the polecat.
