skunkery
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close
VERB + SKUNKERY
asked, establish
SKUNKERY + NOUN
profits
PREP.
about, in
ADV.
such
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noun
A place where skunks are raised.
In fact, he will take pride in his calling , and will not “whimper” when asked about his skunkery.
In Michigan, a skunkery promises such profits that within a generation an aristocratic family will be founded as notable as that of the Astors or the Vanderbilts.
A place, activity, or institution occupied or instituted by despicable or skunkish people.
1983, John Masefield, Audrey Napier-Smith, Letters to Reyna, London : Buchan & Enright I felt that he had been murdered by the skunks in one of the skunkeries called ministries: & as I began to read for this, someone did a book on the theme […]
a skunkery . Platforms, manifestoes, utopianisms, factional vendettas — all were trivial beside the sufferings in Flanders and on the seas, the lacerations inflicted both by the crook and the idealist.
skunkish behavior.
"Treachery? You meant skunkery, didn't you? "
It is easy to be wise and cocksure 200 years after the events that I hesitate to write yet; I do not know enough, but I do know that skunks in power make him a scapegoat and murdered him for their own dirty skunkery and its results.
A bad smell.
The inflation in business, the blah in economics, the asinine instruction in literature, are all of a perfume, a whorefume, a skunkery, of one smell, of one root at bottom.·
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3In fact, he will take pride in his calling , and will not “whimper” when asked about his skunkery.
WiktionaryIn Michigan, a skunkery promises such profits that within a generation an aristocratic family will be founded as notable as that of the Astors or the Vanderbilts.
WiktionaryThis is why it seems desirable to establish a skunkery close to or in a city. Even in the country the neighbors will help out. The farmers will be only too […]
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