Term Gallery logo

Meanings of polecat in English

Portuguese
toirão
Catalan
furó
Spanish
mustela putorius

Dark brown mustelid of woodlands of Eurasia that gives off an unpleasant odor when threatened.

        toirão
        Portuguese
        gambá
        Catalan
        turó

        American musteline mammal typically ejecting an intensely malodorous fluid when startled; in some classifications put in a separate subfamily Mephitinae.

              gambá
              Usage of polecat in English
              1
              Perhaps the most unique and clever food conserver is the American polecat.
              The Human Side of Animals
              2
              The Master saw her expression, and saw Pantalaimon's polecat eyes flash red.
              The golden compass
              3
              The old woman gazed at him with her little polecat eyes, and answered:-
              Les Misérables
              4
              Also, it hurt, and the polecat did not lose his hold.
              The Way of the Wild
              5
              It stinks like a polecat, and is undoubtedly full of all creeping things.
              No Man's Land
              6
              The polecat is also practically extinct, though occasional specimens are said to occur.
              The Life of the Fields
              7
              The polecat said nothing, perhaps because he had nothing to say.
              The Way of the Wild
              8
              He's a polecat, and I saved him from being put down.
              The Guardian
              9
              I suppose the English word is polecat, but it doesn't say as much.
              The Primadonna / A Sequel to "Fair Margaret"
              10
              Well, at least now I know what a polecat smells like.
              One summer in santa fe
              11
              The wasp stings, and the polecat stinks, and the lion tears its prey asunder.
              Dr. Wortle's School
              12
              She recoiled like a coiled snake, and the polecat felt fire in one loin.
              The Way of the Wild
              13
              We tried cayenne pepper and n-butyl mercaptan-themain ingredient in "polecat essence."
              Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at th...
              14
              He can be a moth when she's spying or a polecat when she's fighting.
              Wired
              15
              But he died!-shot as a man would shoot a jay or a polecat!
              Night and Morning, Volume 4
              16
              If so, so much the worse for the polecat.
              The Way of the Wild
              About this term
              More collocations
              Translations for polecat
              Polecat through the time
              Polecat across language varieties
              United Kingdom
              Common