licking vs skunk

licking and skunk both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
licking	Yes	No	No	No
skunk	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, skunk is a hyponym of licking; that is, skunk is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than licking:

licking (noun)	skunk (noun)
the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows	American musteline mammal typically ejecting an intensely malodorous fluid when startled; in some classifications put in a separate subfamily Mephitinae
an unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest	street names for marijuana
	a defeat in a game where one side fails to score
	a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible

licking (verb)	skunk (verb)
	defeat by a lurch