skunky
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
skunk + -y; skunks are known for their unpleasant odor. For the beer sense, compare skunk (“to go bad”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -ʌŋki
Adjective[edit]
skunky (comparative skunkier, superlative skunkiest)
- Having an unpleasant odor.
- Having a smell of skunk (a type of marijuana).
- 2023, Brandon Taylor, The Late Americans, Jonathan Cape, page 116:
- Sure enough, he had the skunky odor of marijuana.
- (of beer) Spoiled, bad.
- 2004, Harold McGee, chapter 13, in On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen, Scribner, →ISBN:
- One American brewer with trademark clear bottles developed a modified hop extract that’s free of the vulnerable hop acid, and this prevents its beer from going skunky.