🙄 A foolish person 👱 Hair with a stripe 🦨 A smelly person

skunkhead

9.9

A person who smells strongly of skunk spray

noun
/ˈskʌŋkˌhɛd/

: persona que huele a mofeta

She became a skunkhead when a skunk sprayed her while she was taking out the trash.

Examples

After the camping trip, he was called a skunkhead because of the strong smell on his jacket.
After the encounter with the skunk, he smelled like a skunkhead.
No one wanted to sit next to the skunkhead on the bus after the incident in the woods.
The dog sprayed him, and now he is a total skunkhead.
After getting sprayed by the skunk, he was embarrassed to be called a skunkhead by his friends.
Everyone tried to avoid the skunkhead at the party because the smell was overwhelming.
After running into a skunk in the yard, she was horrified to realize she had turned into a skunkhead.

Synonyms

smeller

vsskunkhead

Offensive

1 8.6

A person with a strong, unpleasant body odor

is caused specifically by an animal's pungent spray rather than general body odor

How Smelly

skunkhead

9.9

smeller

Offensive

1 8.6

Surface Forms

skunkhead singular

skunkheads plural

Morphology

skunkhead = skunk + head (transparent) = skunk + head

A literal compound of 'skunk' + 'head' meaning a person (head) smelling of skunk spray; straightforward for learners who know both words.

Etymology

Skunkhead comes from the animal skunk and the word head, and it paints a picture of someone's head smelling like a skunk after being sprayed. That's why it means a person who smells strongly of skunk spray.