Crossword-Solution: POLECAT
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Polecat | n. | A small European carnivore of the Weasel family (Putorius foetidus). Its scent glands secrete a substance of an exceedingly disagreeable odor. Called also fitchet, foulmart, and European ferret. |
| Polecat | n. | The zorilla. The name is also applied to other allied species. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| POLECAT | anagram | PACOLET, PLACETO |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEERA
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greedy person
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Sentences with POLECAT (5)
Said Ralph to him: "Well, have I got me a servant and thrall good cheap?" "Yea," said Clement, "if thou deem a polecat a likely hound." Said the Captain: "Put thy sword through him, knight." Quoth another: "Let him run up hill, and our bowmen shall shoot a match at him." "Nay," said Ralph, "they have done well with their shooting, let them rest.
When two of these asses met, there would be an anxious “Have you got your lantern?” and a gratified “Yes!” That was the shibboleth, and very needful too; for, as it was the rule to keep our glory contained, none could recognise a lantern-bearer, unless (like the polecat) by the smell.
She had a mane like a horse, horns like a deer, a face like a bear, eyes like a polecat; while her body had something of each.
Tressilian's conscience is of other mould--the world thou speakest of has not that which could bribe him from the way of truth and honour; and for living in it with a soiled fame, the ermine would as soon seek to lodge in the den of the foul polecat.
And thus it came to pass that in the dusk of a November evening the Russian boy, murmuring a few of the prayers of his Church for luck, gave hasty but decent burial to a large polecat under the lilac trees at Hoopington.
Quotes with POLECAT (1)
Excuse me, I have five pages. May I use the Xerox machine because I have to make some copies? The result was that once again nearly all (93 percent) agreed, even though no real reason, no new information, was added to justify their compliance. Just as the “cheep-cheep” sound of turkey chicks triggered an automatic mothering response from maternal turkeys — even when it emanated from a stuffed polecat — so, too, did the word “because” trigger an automatic compliance response
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 47 times in crossword archives (1946–2022).