Skunk vs Rose - What's the difference?
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Any of various small mammals, of the family Mephitidae, native to North and Central America, having a glossy black with a white coat and two musk glands at the base of the tail for emitting a noxious smell as a defensive measure.
(slang) A despicable person.
(slang) A walkover victory in sports or board games, as when the opposing side is unable to score. Compare shutout.
(cribbage) A win by 30 or more points.
To defeat so badly as to prevent any opposing points.
(cribbage) To win by 30 or more points.
to go bad, to spoil
A member of a hybrid skinhead and punk subculture.
* 2006 , Pam Nilan, Carles Feixa, Global Youth?: Hybrid Identities, Plural Worlds (page 192)
* 2011 , Gerard DeGroot (quoting Brown), Seventies Unplugged
(slang) (marijuana).
Any of the strains of hybrids of Cannabis sativa'' and ''Cannabis indica that may have THC levels exceeding those of typical hashish.
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A shrub of the genus Rosa , with red, pink, white or yellow flowers.
A flower of the rose plant.
A plant or species in the rose family. (Rosaceae)
Something resembling a rose flower.
(heraldiccharge) The rose flower, usually depicted with five petals, five barbs, and a circular seed.
A purplish-red or pink colour, the colour of some rose flowers.
A round nozzle for a sprinkling can or hose.
The base of a light socket.
(mathematics) Any of various flower-like polar graphs of sinusoids or their squares.
(mathematics, graph theory) A graph with only one vertex.
(poetic) To make rose-coloured; to redden or flush.
* Shakespeare
(poetic) To perfume, as with roses.
Having a purplish-red or pink colour. See rosy.
(rise)
As nouns the difference between skunk and rose
is that skunk is any of various small mammals, of the family Mephitidae, native to North and Central America, having a glossy black with a white coat and two musk glands at the base of the tail for emitting a noxious smell as a defensive measure while rose is a shrub of the genus Rosa, with red, pink, white or yellow flowers.As verbs the difference between skunk and rose
is that skunk is to defeat so badly as to prevent any opposing points while rose is to make rose-coloured; to redden or flush.As an adjective rose is
having a purplish-red or pink colour. See rosy.As a proper noun Rose is
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English
(wikipedia skunk)Etymology 1
At first spelt squunck, from the (etyl) name for the animal, .Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* drunk as a skunk * skunkyVerb
(en verb)- I skunked him at cards.
- We fished all day but the lake skunked us.
See also
* Mephitidae * Mephitis * * * polecatEtymology 2
, influenced by the animal (Etymology 1).Noun
(en noun)- In the early 1980s, certain ex-punks joined them, becoming 'skunks' – a hybrid subculture of skinheads and punks.
Etymology 3
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rose
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) ). Possibly ultimately a derivation from a verb for "to grow" only attested in Indo-Iranian (*Hwardh-'', compare Sanskrit ''vardh- , with relatives in Avestan).Noun
(s)Verb
(ros)- A maid yet rosed over with the virgin crimson of modesty.
- (Tennyson)