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{{also|-punk|Punk}}
{{also|-punk|Punk}}
==English==
==English==

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===Etymology===
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Perhaps a reduction of {{term|spunk||tinder|lang=en}}; compare {{term|funk||rotten wood|lang=en}}. Alternatively, perhaps from {{etyl|unm|en}} {{term|punkw||dust|lang=unm}}.<ref>''Lenape Talking Dictionary'', [http://www.talk-lenape.org/detail.php?id=8970 punkw]</ref> Other senses derived by extension of the term for rotten wood dust to "anything rotten, worthless, rubbish" (1869) and figuratively to "a worthless person, a young hoodlum" (first recorded in 1908).<ref>Robert K. Barnhart (editor), ''The Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology'' (H. W. Wilson, 1988), page 864: "Probably borrowed from Algonquian (Delaware) ''ponk'', literally, living ashes."</ref>


===Pronunciation===
===Pronunciation===
* {{rhymes|ʌŋk}}
* {{rhymes|ʌŋk}}


===Noun===
===Etymology 1===
Of uncertain origin. Possibly from the application of the sense {{term|punk||rotten wood dust used as tinder|lang=en}} (see below) to anything worthless (that sense being attested since 1869), and then to any undesirable person (since 1908). Alternatively, perhaps from {{etyl|es|en}} {{term|punto||prostitute|lang=es}}.<ref name="Dictionary.com">{{R:Dictionary.com}}</ref>

====Noun====
{{en-noun|~}}
{{en-noun|~}}


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# {{context|countable|lang=en}} A juvenile delinquent, young petty criminal or trouble-maker.
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# {{context|uncountable|lang=en}} Any material used as tinder for lighting fires, such as [[agaric]], dried [[wood]], or [[touchwood]].[http://machaut.uchicago.edu/?resource=Webster%27s&word=punk&use1913=on], especially wood altered by certain fungi.
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#* '''1899''', H. B. Cushman, ''History of the Choctaw, Chickasaw and Natchez Indians'', p271
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#*: On one occasion a venerable old Indian man, who, in order to light his pipe, was trying to catch a spark upon a piece of '''punk''' struck from his flint and steel; ...
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#* '''1922''', Harry Ignatius Marshall, ''The Karen People of Burma'', p61
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#*: The oil is mixed with bits of dry wood or '''punk''' and moulded into sticks about a cubit long and an inch in diameter by putting it into joints of small bamboo.
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#* '''2001''', William W. Johnstone, ''War of the Mountain Man'', p116
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#*: He made him a little smoldering pocket of '''punk''' to light the fuses and waited.
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# {{context|countable|lang=en}} A utensil for lighting wicks or fuses (such as those of fireworks) resembling stick incense.
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#* '''1907''', Jack London, ''The Road'', [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/14658]
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#*: On the end a coal of fire slowly smouldered. It would last for hours, and my cell-mate called it a "'''punk'''."
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#* '''1994''', Ashland Price, ''Viking Tempest'', p353
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#*: Then, without another word, he rose and left the shelter, apparently in order to light the vessel's wick with a '''punk''' from the dying campfire.
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#* '''2004''', Shawn Shiflett, ''Hidden Place'', p221
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#*: He raised the cylinder high in the air with his bare hand, used a '''punk''' to light the fuse, and ''KABOOM''!
# {{context|obsolete|countable|lang=en}} A [[prostitute]]; [[courtezan]].
# {{context|obsolete|countable|lang=en}} A [[prostitute]]; [[courtezan]].
#* {{RQ:Shakespeare Measure}}, V.i.
#* {{RQ:Shakespeare Measure}}, V.i.
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#* '''1663''': [[w:Samuel Butler (poet)|Samuel Butler]], ''[[w:Hudibras|Hudibras]]''.
#* '''1663''': [[w:Samuel Butler (poet)|Samuel Butler]], ''[[w:Hudibras|Hudibras]]''.
#*: And made them fight, like mad or drunk,<br>For Dame Religion, as for '''punk'''.
#*: And made them fight, like mad or drunk,<br>For Dame Religion, as for '''punk'''.
# {{context|countable|lang=en}} {{context|19th century|rare|lang=en}} The [[bottom]] in a male-male sexual relationship; a [[catamite]].
# {{context|countable|uncommon|lang=en}} The [[bottom]] in a male-male sexual relationship, ''especially'' in prison. {{defdate|since the 19th century}}
#: ''Because he was so weak, Vinny soon became Tony's '''punk'''.''
#: ''Because he was so weak, Vinny soon became Tony's '''punk'''.''
# {{context|US|prison|_|slang|lang=en}} A male used for sex by larger or stronger [[inmates]], a [[pussyboy]]
#* '''1946''', Mezz Mezzrow & Bernard Wolfe, ''Really the Blues'', Payback Press 1999, p. 15:
#* '''1946''', Mezz Mezzrow & Bernard Wolfe, ''Really the Blues'', Payback Press 1999, p. 15:
#*: A '''punk''', if you want it in plain English, is a boy with smooth skin who takes the place of a woman in a jailbird's love life.
#*: A '''punk''', if you want it in plain English, is a boy with smooth skin who takes the place of a woman in a jailbird's love life.
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# {{context|countable|lang=en}} A juvenile delinquent; a young petty criminal or trouble-maker; a hoodlum.
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# {{context|countable|lang=en}} Any [[worthless]] person.
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#* '''1971''', [[w:Harry Julian Fink|Harry Julian Fink]], R.M. Fink, [[w:Dean Riesner|Dean Riesner]], ''[[w:Dirty Harry|Dirty Harry]]''
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#*: I know what you're thinking, '''punk'''. You're thinking, "Did he fire six shots or only five?" Well, to tell you the truth, I've forgotten myself in all this excitement. But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself a question: Do I feel lucky? / Well, do ya, '''punk'''?
# {{context|uncountable|lang=en}} A social and musical movement rooted in rebelling against the established order.
# {{context|uncountable|lang=en}} A social and musical movement rooted in rebelling against the established order.
# {{context|uncountable|lang=en}} The music of the punk movement, known for short songs with electric guitars, strong drums, and a direct, [[unproduced]] approach.
# {{context|uncountable|lang=en}} The music of the punk movement, known for short songs with electric guitars, strong drums, and a direct, [[unproduced]] approach.
# {{context|countable|sometimes as informal plural [[punx]]|lang=en}} A person subscribing to the movement, a [[punk rocker]].
# {{context|countable|sometimes as informal plural [[punx]]|lang=en}} A person who belongs to that movement and/or listens to that music, a [[punk rocker]].
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# {{context|countable|lang=en}} A [[worthless]] person.
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#* '''1971''', [[w:Harry Julian Fink|Harry Julian Fink]], R.M. Fink, [[w:Dean Riesner|Dean Riesner]], ''[[w:Dirty Harry|Dirty Harry]]''
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#*: I know what you're thinking, '''punk'''. You're thinking, "Did he fire six shots or only five?" Well, to tell you the truth, I've forgotten myself in all this excitement. But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself a question: Do I feel lucky? / Well, do ya, '''punk'''?


====Usage notes====
=====Usage notes=====
The most common usage is as in ''[[punk rock]]'', the social and musical movement. In the UK this is possibly the sole usage with occasional quotation from film, TV etc. as in the example given below.
The most common use of the term is in the term ''[[punk rock]]'' (for a certain social and musical movement). In the UK, this is the only common usage.


====Translations====
=====Translations=====
{{trans-see|prostitute}}
{{trans-see|prostitute}}


{{trans-top|The bottom in a male-male sexual relationship}}
{{trans-top-also|the bottom in a male-male sexual relationship|bottom}}
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{{trans-mid}}
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{{trans-bottom}}

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{{trans-top|a juvenile delinquent, young petty criminal or trouble-maker}}
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* Czech: {{t|cs|mladistvý delikvent|m}}, {{t+|cs|grázl|m}}, {{t|cs|syčák|m}}
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* Finnish: {{t+|fi|pikkurikollinen}}
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* French: {{t+|fr|vaurien|m}}
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{{trans-mid}}
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* Italian: {{t+|it|teppista|m}}, {{t|it|teppistello|m}}
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{{trans-bottom}}

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{{trans-top|a worthless person}}
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* Dutch: {{t+|nl|nietsnut|m|f}}
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* Finnish: {{t|fi|retku}}
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{{trans-mid}}
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* French: {{t+|fr|morpion|m}}, {{t|fr|petit con|m}}
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* Italian: {{t+|it|impiastro|m}}
{{trans-bottom}}
{{trans-bottom}}


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{{trans-bottom}}
{{trans-bottom}}


{{trans-top|a person subscribing to the movement, a punk rocker}}
{{trans-top|a person of that movement, a punk rocker}}
* Czech: {{t+|cs|pankáč|m}}, {{t|cs|punker|m}}
* Czech: {{t+|cs|pankáč|m}}, {{t|cs|punker|m}}
* Finnish: {{t|fi|punkkari}}
* Finnish: {{t|fi|punkkari}}
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{{trans-bottom}}
{{trans-bottom}}


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====Adjective====
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{{trans-top|a worthless person}}
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* Dutch: {{t+|nl|nietsnut|m|f}}
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* Finnish: {{t|fi|retku}}
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{{trans-mid}}
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* French: {{t+|fr|morpion|m}}, {{t|fr|petit con|m}}
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* Italian: {{t+|it|impiastro|m}}
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{{trans-bottom}}

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{{trans-top|a juvenile delinquent, young petty criminal or trouble-maker}}
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* Czech: {{t|cs|mladistvý delikvent|m}}, {{t+|cs|grázl|m}}, {{t|cs|syčák|m}}
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* Finnish: {{t+|fi|pikkurikollinen}}
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* French: {{t+|fr|vaurien|m}}
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{{trans-mid}}
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* Italian: {{t+|it|teppista|m}}, {{t|it|teppistello|m}}
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{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|a utensil for lighting fireworks resembling stick incense}}
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{{trans-bottom}}

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===Adjective===
{{en-adj|er}}
{{en-adj|er}}


# Of, or resembling the punk [[subculture]]
# Of, from, or resembling the [[#Noun|punk]] [[subculture]].
#: ''You look very '''punk''' with your t-shirt, piercing and chains.
#: ''You look very '''punk''' with your t-shirt, piercing and chains.


===Verb===
====Verb====
{{en-verb}}
{{en-verb}}


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#: ''Tony '''punked-out''' Vinny when he was low on smokes.''
#: ''Tony '''punked-out''' Vinny when he was low on smokes.''
# To forcibly perform [[anal sex]] upon an unwilling partner.
# To forcibly perform [[anal sex]] upon an unwilling partner.
#: ''Tony '''punked''' all his new cell-mates.''
#: ''Ricky '''punked''' his new cell-mates.''
# To [[prank]].
# To [[prank]].
#: ''I got expelled when I '''punked''' the principal.''
#: ''I got expelled when I '''punked''' the principal.''
# To give up or concede; to act like a [[wimp]].
# {{cx|especially with "out"|lang=en}} To give up or concede; to act like a [[wimp]].
#: ''Jimmy was going to help me with the prank, but he '''punked-out''' at the last minute.''
#: ''Jimmy was going to help me with the prank, but he '''punked''' (out) at the last minute.''


====Usage notes====
=====Usage notes=====
The relatively tame 21st century usage of ''punk'' was popularized by the American television show [[w:Punk'd|Punk'd]]. Until as recently as the late 20th century, ''punk'' still connoted [[rape]] or submitting to anal rape (''punk-out''). The second use of the term ''punk-out'' is now comparable to acting like a ''[[pussy]]'' and mildly implies submissive behavior in general.
The relatively tame 21st century usage of ''punk'' to mean "prank" was popularized by the American television show [[w:Punk'd|Punk'd]]. Until as recently as the late 20th century, ''punk'' still connoted [[rape]] or submitting to anal rape (''punk-out''). The second use of the term ''punk-out'' is now comparable to acting like a ''[[pussy]]'' and mildly implies submissive behavior in general.


====Synonyms====
=====Synonyms=====
* See also [[Wikisaurus:prostitute]]
* see [[Wikisaurus:prostitute]]


===Derived terms===
====Derived terms====
{{rel-top}}
{{rel-top}}
* [[cyberpunk]]
* [[cyberpunk]]
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* [[ska punk]]
* [[ska punk]]
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{{rel-bottom}}

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===Etymology 2===
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Perhaps a reduction of {{term|spunk||tinder|lang=en}}; compare {{term|funk||rotten wood|lang=en}}. Alternatively, perhaps from {{etyl|unm|en}} {{term|punkw||dust|lang=unm}}<ref>''Lenape Talking Dictionary'', [http://www.talk-lenape.org/detail.php?id=8970 punkw]</ref>.<ref name="Dictionary.com"/><ref>Robert K. Barnhart (editor), ''The Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology'' (H. W. Wilson, 1988), page 864: "Probably borrowed from Algonquian (Delaware) ''ponk'', literally, living ashes."</ref>

====Noun====
{{en-noun|~}}

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# {{context|uncountable|lang=en}} Any material used as tinder for lighting fires, such as [[agaric]], dried [[wood]], or [[touchwood]].[http://machaut.uchicago.edu/?resource=Webster%27s&word=punk&use1913=on], especially wood altered by certain fungi.
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#* '''1899''', H. B. Cushman, ''History of the Choctaw, Chickasaw and Natchez Indians'', p271
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#*: On one occasion a venerable old Indian man, who, in order to light his pipe, was trying to catch a spark upon a piece of '''punk''' struck from his flint and steel; ...
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#* '''1922''', Harry Ignatius Marshall, ''The Karen People of Burma'', p61
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#*: The oil is mixed with bits of dry wood or '''punk''' and moulded into sticks about a cubit long and an inch in diameter by putting it into joints of small bamboo.
⚫
#* '''2001''', William W. Johnstone, ''War of the Mountain Man'', p116
⚫
#*: He made him a little smoldering pocket of '''punk''' to light the fuses and waited.
⚫
# {{context|countable|lang=en}} A utensil for lighting wicks or fuses (such as those of fireworks) resembling stick incense.
⚫
#* '''1907''', Jack London, ''The Road'', [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/14658]
⚫
#*: On the end a coal of fire slowly smouldered. It would last for hours, and my cell-mate called it a "'''punk'''."
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#* '''1994''', Ashland Price, ''Viking Tempest'', p353
⚫
#*: Then, without another word, he rose and left the shelter, apparently in order to light the vessel's wick with a '''punk''' from the dying campfire.
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#* '''2004''', Shawn Shiflett, ''Hidden Place'', p221
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#*: He raised the cylinder high in the air with his bare hand, used a '''punk''' to light the fuse, and ''KABOOM''!


===References===
===References===

Revision as of 01:03, 9 April 2014

See also: -punk and Punk

English

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

Of uncertain origin. Possibly from the application of the sense (deprecated template usage) punk (see below) to anything worthless (that sense being attested since 1869), and then to any undesirable person (since 1908). Alternatively, perhaps from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Spanish (deprecated template usage) punto.[1]

Noun

punk (countable and uncountable, plural punks)

  1. (deprecated template usage) (obsolete, countable) A prostitute; courtezan.
    • c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
      , V.i.
      My lord, she may be a punk; for many of them are neither maid, widow, nor wife.
    • 1663: Samuel Butler, Hudibras.
      And made them fight, like mad or drunk,
      For Dame Religion, as for punk.
  2. (deprecated template usage) (countable, uncommon) The bottom in a male-male sexual relationship, especially in prison. [since the 19th century]
    Because he was so weak, Vinny soon became Tony's punk.
    • 1946, Mezz Mezzrow & Bernard Wolfe, Really the Blues, Payback Press 1999, p. 15:
      A punk, if you want it in plain English, is a boy with smooth skin who takes the place of a woman in a jailbird's love life.
  3. (deprecated template usage) (countable) A juvenile delinquent; a young petty criminal or trouble-maker; a hoodlum.
  4. (deprecated template usage) (countable) Any worthless person.
    • 1971, Harry Julian Fink, R.M. Fink, Dean Riesner, Dirty Harry
      I know what you're thinking, punk. You're thinking, "Did he fire six shots or only five?" Well, to tell you the truth, I've forgotten myself in all this excitement. But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself a question: Do I feel lucky? / Well, do ya, punk?
  5. (deprecated template usage) (uncountable) A social and musical movement rooted in rebelling against the established order.
  6. (deprecated template usage) (uncountable) The music of the punk movement, known for short songs with electric guitars, strong drums, and a direct, unproduced approach.
  7. (deprecated template usage) (countable, sometimes as informal plural punx) A person who belongs to that movement and/or listens to that music, a punk rocker.
Usage notes

The most common use of the term is in the term punk rock (for a certain social and musical movement). In the UK, this is the only common usage.

Translations
prostitute — see prostitute

Adjective

punk (comparative punker, superlative punkest)

  1. Of, from, or resembling the punk subculture.
    You look very punk with your t-shirt, piercing and chains.

Verb

punk (third-person singular simple present punks, present participle punking, simple past and past participle punked)

  1. To pimp.
    Tony punked-out Vinny when he was low on smokes.
  2. To forcibly perform anal sex upon an unwilling partner.
    Ricky punked his new cell-mates.
  3. To prank.
    I got expelled when I punked the principal.
  4. (deprecated template usage) (especially with "out") To give up or concede; to act like a wimp.
    Jimmy was going to help me with the prank, but he punked (out) at the last minute.
Usage notes

The relatively tame 21st century usage of punk to mean "prank" was popularized by the American television show Punk'd. Until as recently as the late 20th century, punk still connoted rape or submitting to anal rape (punk-out). The second use of the term punk-out is now comparable to acting like a pussy and mildly implies submissive behavior in general.

Synonyms

Derived terms

Related terms

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Etymology 2

Perhaps a reduction of (deprecated template usage) spunk; compare (deprecated template usage) funk. Alternatively, perhaps from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Unami (deprecated template usage) punkw[2].[1][3]

Noun

punk (countable and uncountable, plural punks)

  1. (deprecated template usage) (uncountable) Any material used as tinder for lighting fires, such as agaric, dried wood, or touchwood.[1], especially wood altered by certain fungi.
    • 1899, H. B. Cushman, History of the Choctaw, Chickasaw and Natchez Indians, p271
      On one occasion a venerable old Indian man, who, in order to light his pipe, was trying to catch a spark upon a piece of punk struck from his flint and steel; ...
    • 1922, Harry Ignatius Marshall, The Karen People of Burma, p61
      The oil is mixed with bits of dry wood or punk and moulded into sticks about a cubit long and an inch in diameter by putting it into joints of small bamboo.
    • 2001, William W. Johnstone, War of the Mountain Man, p116
      He made him a little smoldering pocket of punk to light the fuses and waited.
  2. (deprecated template usage) (countable) A utensil for lighting wicks or fuses (such as those of fireworks) resembling stick incense.
    • 1907, Jack London, The Road, [2]
      On the end a coal of fire slowly smouldered. It would last for hours, and my cell-mate called it a "punk."
    • 1994, Ashland Price, Viking Tempest, p353
      Then, without another word, he rose and left the shelter, apparently in order to light the vessel's wick with a punk from the dying campfire.
    • 2004, Shawn Shiflett, Hidden Place, p221
      He raised the cylinder high in the air with his bare hand, used a punk to light the fuse, and KABOOM!

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 “punk”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
  2. ^ Lenape Talking Dictionary, punkw
  3. ^ Robert K. Barnhart (editor), The Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology (H. W. Wilson, 1988), page 864: "Probably borrowed from Algonquian (Delaware) ponk, literally, living ashes."

French

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Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] English punk.

Pronunciation

Noun

punk m (plural punks)

  1. punk

Adjective

punk (feminine punke, masculine plural punks, feminine plural punkes)

  1. punk

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

Noun

punk m (definite singular punken, uncountable)

  1. punk music

Alternative forms

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