different between skunk vs raspberry

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sk??k/
• Rhymes: -??k

Etymology 1

From an unattested Southern New England Algonquian word, cognate with Abenaki segôgw, segonku (“he who squirts (musk) / urinates”), from Proto-Algonquian *šeka·kwa, from *šek- (“to urinate”).

Noun

skunk (plural skunks)

1. 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.
   • 1634, William Wood, New Englands Prospect:

     The bea?ts of offence be Squunckes, Ferrets, Foxes, who?e impudence ?ometimes drives them to the good wives Hen roo?t […]

2. (slang, derogatory) A despicable person.
3. (slang) A walkover victory in sports or board games, as when the opposing side is unable to score.

   Coordinate term: shutout

4. (cribbage) A win by 30 or more points. (A double skunk is 60 or more, a triple skunk 90 or more.)

Derived terms

• drunk as a skunk
• skunk at a garden party
• skunky

Descendants

• ? Czech: skunk
• ? Danish: skunk
• ? German: Skunk
• ? Finnish: skunkki
• ? French: skunks
• ? Icelandic: skunkur
• ? Japanese: ???? (sukanku)
• ? Norwegian: skunk
• ? Polish: skunks
• ? Russian: ????? (skuns)
• ? Slovak: skunk
• ? Swedish: skunk

Translations

Verb

skunk (third-person singular simple present skunks, present participle skunking, simple past and past participle skunked)

1. (transitive) To defeat so badly as to prevent any opposing points.

   I skunked him at cards.

   We fished all day but the lake skunked us.

2. (cribbage) To win by 30 or more points.
3. (intransitive, of beer) To go bad, to spoil.

See also

• Mephitis
• Spilogale
• Conepatus
• polecat

Etymology 2

Blend of skinhead +? punk, influenced by the animal (Etymology 1).

Noun

skunk (plural skunks)

1. A member of a hybrid skinhead and punk subculture.
   • 2006, Pam Nilan, Carles Feixa, Global Youth?: Hybrid Identities, Plural Worlds (page 192)

     In the early 1980s, certain ex-punks joined them, becoming 'skunks' – a hybrid subculture of skinheads and punks.

   • 2011, Gerard DeGroot (quoting Brown), Seventies Unplugged

     […] mods, skins, suedes, smoothies, punks, skunks, rude boys, soul boys and headbangers […]

Etymology 3

From skunkweed (“certain highly aromatic marijuana”)

Noun

skunk (countable and uncountable, plural skunks)

1. (slang) Clipping of skunkweed (marijuana).
2. Any of the strains of hybrids of Cannabis sativa and Cannabis indica that may have THC levels exceeding those of typical hashish.

Czech

Noun

skunk m

1. skunk (animal)

Further reading

• skunk in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• skunk in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English skunk.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sk??k/
• Hyphenation: skunk

Noun

skunk m (uncountable)

1. skunk, weed with a high level of THC

Swedish

Noun

skunk c

1. a skunk

Declension

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: räz'br?, IPA^(key): /????zb?i/
• (US) enPR: r?z'b?"r?, IPA^(key): /??æz?b??i/

Etymology 1

From earlier raspis berry, possibly from raspise (a sweet rose-colored wine), from Anglo-Latin vinum raspeys, of uncertain origin. Possibly related to rasp (“coarse, rough”), of Germanic origin.

Noun

raspberry (plural raspberries)

1. The plant Rubus idaeus.
2. Any of many other (but not all) species in the genus Rubus.
3. The juicy aggregate fruit of these plants.
4. A red colour, the colour of a ripe raspberry.

Synonyms

• (obsolete) hindberry, raspis

Meronyms

• (aggregate fruit): drupelet

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ????? (razuber?)

Translations

Adjective

raspberry (not comparable)

1. Containing or having the flavor/flavour of raspberries.
2. Of a dark pinkish red.

   She wore a raspberry beret — lyrics of Raspberry Beret, by the musician Prince

Translations

Verb

raspberry (third-person singular simple present raspberries, present participle raspberrying, simple past and past participle raspberried)

1. To gather or forage for raspberries.
   • 1903, M. E. Waller, A Daughter of the Rich, Little, Brown, and Company (1903), page 137:

     […] she stuck burrs in my bed and lead me through the nettle-patch when we were raspberrying, because she knew I did n't know nettles; […]

   • 1917, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams, Chapter 37:

     "Owen and she went raspberrying in the woods back of her farm," answered Anne. "They won't be back before supper time—if then."

   • 1944, Cornelius Weygandt, The Heart of New Hampshire: Things Held Dear by Folks of the Old Stocks, G. P. Putnam's Sons (1944), page 129:

     […] Mrs. Thrifty was picking pie cherries, two boys were raspberrying, and the fourth son, as I recall it, blueberrying.

   • 1976, Emily Ward, The Way Things Were: An Autobiography of Emily Ward, Newport Press (1976), page 4:

     My mother told my sister Sally and me that if we were good little girls we might go raspberrying up on the mountains when the raspberries were ripe.

   • 1988, Charles McCarry, The Bride of the Wilderness, MysteriousPress.com (2011), ?ISBN, unnumbered page:

     In strawberry time she had seen individual bears grazing in the meadows along the bluff, and later, while raspberrying, she heard one gobbling fruit and snorting on the other side of the bush.

See also

• (reds) red; blood red, brick red, burgundy, cardinal, carmine, carnation, cerise, cherry, cherry red, Chinese red, cinnabar, claret, crimson, damask, fire brick, fire engine red, flame, flamingo, fuchsia, garnet, geranium, gules, hot pink, incarnadine, Indian red, magenta, maroon, misty rose, nacarat, oxblood, pillar-box red, pink, Pompeian red, poppy, raspberry, red violet, rose, rouge, ruby, ruddy, salmon, sanguine, scarlet, shocking pink, stammel, strawberry, Turkey red, Venetian red, vermillion, vinaceous, vinous, violet red, wine ^{(Category: en:Reds)}
• boysenberry
• loganberry
• salmonberry
• tayberry
• thimbleberry
• whitebark raspberry

References

Etymology 2

Cockney rhyming slang, respectively from raspberry tart = fart (though "raspberry" is rarely used for a fart, merely a noise which imitates it), and raspberry ripple = cripple.

Noun

raspberry (plural raspberries)

2. (colloquial) A noise intended to imitate the passing of flatulence, made by blowing air out of the mouth while the tongue is protruding from and pressed against the lips, or by blowing air through the lips while they are pressed firmly together or against skin, used humorously or to express derision.

   Synonyms: (US) Bronx cheer, razz

3. (derogatory, colloquial) A cripple.

Derived terms

• blow a raspberry

Translations

Verb

raspberry (third-person singular simple present raspberries, present participle raspberrying, simple past and past participle raspberried)

1. (colloquial) To make the noise intended to imitate the passing of flatulence.