polecat
pohl kat
- n American musteline mammal typically ejecting an intensely malodorous fluid when startled; in some classifications put in a separate subfamily Mephitinae
- n dark brown mustelid of woodlands of Eurasia that gives off an unpleasant odor when threatened
- The found him in his box, "looking like a ghost, pale as death, and smelling like a polecat.
- You can't purify a polecat.
- The little night creature, a common skunk or polecat, rolled over on its side shuddering, dead.