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ziti
English
Alternative forms
- zite
Etymology
From Italian zite or ziti, plural of zita, zito, from a Southern (Neapolitan or Sicilian) word likely from Vulgar Latin pittitus (“small, worthless”), originally denoting a young boy or girl. See also petty.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?zi?ti/, enPR: z??t?
- (General American) IPA(key): [?zi?i]
- Rhymes: -i?ti
Noun
ziti (usually uncountable, plural zitis)
- A type of macaroni pasta in the form of long smooth hollow tubes.
Related terms
- zitoni
Translations
Italian
Noun
ziti m pl
- plural of zito
Anagrams
- tizi
Serbo-Croatian
Alternative forms
- zajti
Etymology
Compare iz- (“out-”). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Pronunciation
Verb
ziti pf (Cyrillic spelling ????)
- (Chakavian, Kajkavian) to go out, leave, come out, get out, to rise, to be published
Related terms
- iza?i
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skunk
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)
- 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 […]
- 1634, William Wood, New Englands Prospect:
- (slang, derogatory) A despicable person.
- (slang) A walkover victory in sports or board games, as when the opposing side is unable to score.
- Coordinate term: shutout
- (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)
- (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.
- (cribbage) To win by 30 or more points.
- (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)
- 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 […]
- 2006, Pam Nilan, Carles Feixa, Global Youth?: Hybrid Identities, Plural Worlds (page 192)
Etymology 3
From skunkweed (“certain highly aromatic marijuana”)
Noun
skunk (countable and uncountable, plural skunks)
- (slang) Clipping of skunkweed (marijuana).
- 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
- 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)
- skunk, weed with a high level of THC
Swedish
Noun
skunk c
- a skunk
Declension
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