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Meanings of polecat in English
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.
Usage of polecat in English
1
Perhaps the most unique and clever food conserver is the American polecat.
2
The Master saw her expression, and saw Pantalaimon's polecat eyes flash red.
3
The old woman gazed at him with her little polecat eyes, and answered:-
4
Also, it hurt, and the polecat did not lose his hold.
5
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.
7
The polecat said nothing, perhaps because he had nothing to say.
8
He's a polecat, and I saved him from being put down.
9
I suppose the English word is polecat, but it doesn't say as much.
10
Well, at least now I know what a polecat smells like.
11
The wasp stings, and the polecat stinks, and the lion tears its prey asunder.
12
She recoiled like a coiled snake, and the polecat felt fire in one loin.
13
We tried cayenne pepper and n-butyl mercaptan-themain ingredient in "polecat essence."
14
He can be a moth when she's spying or a polecat when she's fighting.
15
But he died!-shot as a man would shoot a jay or a polecat!
16
If so, so much the worse for the polecat.
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