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US
/ˈpoʊɫˌkæt/
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[ UK /pˈəʊlkæt/ ]
[ UK /pˈəʊlkæt/ ]
NOUN
- American musteline mammal typically ejecting an intensely malodorous fluid when startled; in some classifications put in a separate subfamily Mephitinae
- dark brown mustelid of woodlands of Eurasia that gives off an unpleasant odor when threatened
How To Use polecat In A Sentence
- But I am aware that there are certain individuals in the community who are endeavoring to excite alarm among you, and 'bugology you', and frighten you from voting for the school system, by telling you if you do, you will smell a polecat -- that it is intended to tax the poor for the benefit of the rich -- that you will be taxed higher than all creation can pay, and finally in a few years, you will be "distinguished" like Jackson 'distinguished' the national debt. The Beginnings of Public Education in North Carolina; A Documentary History, 1790-1840. Vol. II
- Yes, the solitary, crepuscular mammal known to Native Americans as the pekan, pequam or wejack, which closely resembles a European polecat. A Night of Furversion
- ENERGY DYNAMICS OF THE POPULATION OF POLECAT IN THE ALPINE MEADOW ECOSYSTEM.
- I can confirm from personal knowledge and with full evidence to support the charge -- he is a scoundrel, a blaggard and a proven liar with all the ethics of a semi-house-trained polecat. Martin Lewis: Murdoch Scandal: New Arrest Heralds US Peril for Murdoch
- Among other rare and endangered mammal species protected in this ecoregion are: marbled polecat (Vormela peregusna koshevnikovi), otter (Lutra lutra seistanica), manul cat (F. manul ferrugineus), and a number of species of bats and rodents. Kopet Dag woodlands and forest steppe
- The polecat came big and strong, the size of a monster, disguised by the night so no one knew who he was. GYPSY MASALA
- And then by the time they get their first crack at deducing who the polecat is, they will be in custody.
- To minimize the risk of predation, which was mainly by stoats, Mustela erminea, and polecats, Mustela putorius, nest visits were kept to a minimum.
- The great peculiarity in one of these birds was that he, as the seasons succeeded each other, was not always a hen-cock, and not always of the colour called the polecat, which is black. The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.
- A member of the mustelid family, which includes the stoat and badger, the polecat is the size of a ferret. Times, Sunday Times
