Synonyms for Polecat (same or very similar meaning)
WordNet sense 1 (American musteline mammal typically ejecting an intensely malodorous fluid when startled; in some classifications put in a separate subfamily Mephitinae):
skunk, wood pussy
WordNet sense 2 (dark brown mustelid of woodlands of Eurasia that gives off an unpleasant odor when threatened):
fitch, foulmart, foumart, Mustela putorius
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