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civet cat

noun

  1. the fur of the cacomistle.
  2. Western U.S. skunk.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of civet cat1

An Americanism dating back to 1600–10
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Example Sentences

Muske-catthe civet-cat; applied as a term of contempt to a fop, as being a person perfumed with musk.

He talks like a parrot, looks like a woman, dresses like a monkey, and smells like a civet-cat.

By-and-by a civet cat comes stealing through the bush, till he observes me, and hastily departs.

The porcupine, the squirrel, the civet cat, the ichneumon and the otter are common.

I had a civet-cat the other day, too; but it ran away, after scratching my monkey's cheek, and I am in search of it still.

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