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Rotter vs Polecat - What's the difference?

rotter | polecat |

As nouns the difference between rotter and polecat

is that rotter is (rot) while polecat is a weasel-like animal of the genus mustela'', notably the european polecat, ''mustela putorius .

rotter

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A worthless, despicable person.
  • (British, slang) A scoundrel.
  • (British, slang, journalism) A non-accredited journalist.
  • * {{quote-news, author=Daniel Taylor, title=David Silva seizes point for Manchester City as Chelsea are checked, work=(The Guardian) (London), date=31 January 2015 citation
    • , passage=pparently it was the fault of Jamie Redknapp and all the other rotters in the media that Diego Costa was suspended and Mourinho, in turn, was applying his own ban.}}

    Anagrams

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    polecat

    English

    (wikipedia polecat)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A weasel-like animal of the genus Mustela'', notably the European polecat, ''Mustela putorius .
  • (US, dialect) A skunk.

    • Quotations

    * 1919, , 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.

    Derived terms

    * marbled polecat * steppe polecat * striped polecat * European polecat

    Synonyms

    * fitch * foumart * skunk

    Anagrams

    * Appalachian English