wood pussy

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

   Synonymsskunkpolecat

   Broadermusteline mammal

   Narrowerstriped skunkhooded skunkhog-nosed skunkspotted skunk

Questions about wood pussy

What does wood pussy mean?

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

What is another word for wood pussy?

Close synonyms include skunk, polecat. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is wood pussy a common word?

wood pussy is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.