Skunk

• the Skunk River in the United States is a tributary of the Mississippi, rising in central Iowa

• skunk: a moderately small black-and-white mammal whose ability to spray a fetid musk from the anal gland earned it the scientific name Mephitis mephitica, meaning "stench stench." The word skunk is a corruption of the Abenaki word segongw or segonku meaning "one who squirts"

• skunk ≈ thunk ≈ thud ≈ tip