skunkeries

Noun

skunkery (countable and uncountable, plural skunkeries)

1. (countable) A place where skunks are raised.
   • In fact, he will take pride in his calling , and will not “whimper” when asked about his skunkery.1906, Hunter-trader-trapper, page 29
2. (countable) A place, activity, or institution occupied or instituted by despicable or skunkish people.
   • I felt that he had been murdered by the skunks in one of the skunkeries called ministries: & as I began to read for this, someone did a book on the theme […]1983, John Masefield, Audrey Napier-Smith, Letters to Reyna, London : Buchan & Enright
3. (uncountable) skunkish behavior.
   • "Treachery? You meant skunkery, didn't you? "1909 November, Lionel Josaphare, “Fictitious History of the World”, in The Overland Monthly, volume 54, number 5, page 474
4. (uncountable) A bad smell.
   • The inflation in business, the blah in economics, the asinine instruction in literature, are all of a perfume, a whorefume, a skunkery, of one smell, of one root at bottom.·1977, Ezra Pound, edited by Richard Smoley, First Flowering: The Best of the Harvard Advocate