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===Etymology===
===Etymology===
Although {{term|skunk}} might refer to the aroma of alcohol etc, the rhyme seems to have motivated this idiom.
Although {{m|en|skunk}} might refer to the aroma of alcohol etc, the rhyme seems to have motivated this idiom.


===Adjective===
===Adjective===

Revision as of 00:22, 26 October 2015

English

Etymology

Although skunk might refer to the aroma of alcohol etc, the rhyme seems to have motivated this idiom.

Adjective

drunk as a skunk

  1. (deprecated template usage) (simile, colloquial) Highly inebriated.

Usage notes

  • This term follows the common pattern of omitting the first "as" of the full form "as drunk as a skunk".

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