The names of the family and the most common genus (Mephitidae, Mephitis) mean "stench", and Spilogale putorius means "stinking spotted weasel". The word skunk is a corruption of an Abenaki name for...
"well becuase there was a queen backk in the england in thee olden days i should put it, and how to say stinky or smelly i should say, is skunk in england." "So they called her smelly from that day...