Dictionary Definition
polecat
Noun
1 American musteline mammal typically ejecting an
intensely malodorous fluid when startled; in some classifications
put in a separate subfamily Mephitinae [syn: skunk, wood
pussy]
2 dark brown mustelid of woodlands of Eurasia
that gives off an unpleasant odor when threatened [syn: fitch, foulmart, foumart, Mustela
putorius]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- /'pɔlkæt/
Noun
- a weasel like animal of the genus Mustela, notably Mustela putorius.
- (US regional): a skunk
Quotations
- 1919, Ronald
Firbank, Valmouth,
Duckworth, hardback edition, page 61
- By the little garden pergola open to the winds some fluttered peacocks were blotted nervelessly amid the dripping trees, their heads sunk back beneath their wings: while in the pergoda itself, like a fallen storm-cloud, lolled a negress, her levelled, polecat eyes semi-veiled by the nebulous alchemy of the rainbow.
Translations
- Albanian: qelbësi
- Basque: ipurtats
- Belarusian: тхор лясны/ чорны
- Bosnian: tvor
- Breton: pudask
- Bulgarian: прът (pr"t)
- Catalan: turó
- Croatian: tvor
- Czech: tchoř
- Danish: ilder
- Dutch: bunzing
- Esperanto: putoro
- Estonian: tuhkur
- Finnish: hilleri
- French: putois
- West Frisian: murd
- Friulian: puçul, pufe, pudîs, spuç
- Galician: tourón
- German: Iltis
- Greek: οζοϊκτίς, βρωμοκούναβο
- Hungarian: görény
- Irish: firéad
- Italian: puzzola
- Latvian: sesks
- Lithuanian: šeškas
- Lower Sorbian: twoŕ
- Macedonian: обичен твор (običen tvor)
- Norwegian: ilder
- Occitan: catpudre
- Polish: tchórz
- Portuguese: toirăo
- Romanian: dihor
- Romansh: telpi
- Romany: mutsa-kandini
- Russian: хорёк (hor'ók) , хорь (hor')
- Sami: čáhppesbuoidda
- Sardinian: pùtzola
- Scottish Gaelic: feòcallan
- Serbian: твор (-мрки) (tvor (-mrki))
- Slovak: tchor obyčajný
- Slovenian: dihur
- Spanish: turón
- Swedish: iller
- Turkish: kokarca
- Ukrainian: тхiр лiсовий (thir lisovij), чорний (čornij)
- Upper Sorbian: tchór
- Welsh: ffwlbart
Synonyms
Extensive Definition
Polecat may refer to:
- One of several species of weasel:
- Skunks, or other members of the Mephitidae family
- A sketch from Monty Python's Flying Circus entitled Polecat Sketch
- The Polecats, a 1980s British new wave/rockabilly band
- Polecat (band), a 1990s American band
- Lockheed Martin Polecat, an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
- Lineman (occupation), sometimes colloquially referred to as "polecats"
- Typical Barbershop Songs
- A fictional biker gang in the LucasArts game Full Throttle
- The Norwest Polecats Rugby League Football Club which plays in the NSW Tertiary Student Rugby League
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Cape polecat, animal, ape, bar, bear, beast, cavy, chimp, chimpanzee, coon, cur, dog, ferret, foumart, glutton, groundhog, guinea pig,
hedgehog, hound, hyena, insect, mongrel, monk, monkey, mousehound, opossum, pig, porcupine, possum, prairie dog, quill pig,
raccoon, reptile, rotten egg, serpent, skunk, snake, stink ball, stink bomb,
stinkard, stinker, stinkpot, swine, varmint, vermin, viper, weasel, whelp, whistle-pig, wolverine, woodchuck, worm, zoril