skunk vs gage

skunk and gage both are nouns.

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

As nouns, skunk and gage are synonyms defined as:

Other synonyms of skunk include dope, grass, green goddess, locoweed, Mary Jane, pot, sens, sess, smoke, weed.

skunk (noun)	gage (noun)
American musteline mammal typically ejecting an intensely malodorous fluid when startled; in some classifications put in a separate subfamily Mephitinae	a measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity such as the thickness of wire or the amount of rain etc.
street names for marijuana	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

skunk (verb)	gage (verb)
defeat by a lurch	place a bet on