skunk
英 [skʌŋk]
美 [skʌŋk]
- n. スカンク；スカンクの毛皮；厄介者；卑劣漢
- vt.惨めに失敗する；だます
英語の語源
- skunk (n.)
- 1630s, squunck, from a southern New England Algonquian language (probably Abenaki) seganku, from Proto-Algonquian */?eka:kwa/, from */?ek-/ "to urinate" + */-a:kw/ "fox." As an insult, attested from 1841. Skunk cabbage is attested from 1751; earlier skunkweed (1738).
- skunk (v.)
- "to completely defeat (in a game), to shut out from scoring," 1831, from skunk (n.). Related: Skunked; skunking.
例文
- 1. That was a rotten thing to do，you skunk ！
- そんなことをするのはあまりにも悪徳だ、この卑怯なやつ！
- 2.The skunk gives off an unpleasant smell when attacked.
- 攻撃を受けるとスカンクは嫌なにおいを放つ。
- 3.Let every man skin his own skunk .
- [ことわざ]個人がドアの前の雪を掃く。
- 4.I don 't like to skunk him.
- 私は彼を騙すつもりはありません。
- 5.How could you cheat your own children，you skunk ！
- どうして自分の子供を騙すことができようか、この悪いやつ！
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