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===Pronunciation=== |
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===Etymology 1=== |
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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> |
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# {{context|obsolete|countable|lang=en}} A [[prostitute]]; [[courtezan]]. |
# {{context|obsolete|countable|lang=en}} A [[prostitute]]; [[courtezan]]. |
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#* '''1663''': [[w:Samuel Butler (poet)|Samuel Butler]], ''[[w:Hudibras|Hudibras]]''. |
#* '''1663''': [[w:Samuel Butler (poet)|Samuel Butler]], ''[[w:Hudibras|Hudibras]]''. |
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#*: 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'''. |
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# {{context|countable|uncommon|lang=en}} The [[bottom]] in a male-male sexual relationship, ''especially'' in prison. {{defdate|since the 19th century}} |
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#: ''Because he was so weak, Vinny soon became Tony's '''punk'''.'' |
#: ''Because he was so weak, Vinny soon became Tony's '''punk'''.'' |
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# {{context|US|prison|_|slang|lang=en}} A male used for sex by larger or stronger [[inmates]], a [[pussyboy]] |
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#* '''1946''', Mezz Mezzrow & Bernard Wolfe, ''Really the Blues'', Payback Press 1999, p. 15: |
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#*: 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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⚫ | #*: 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'''? |
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# {{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. |
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# {{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. |
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# {{context|countable|sometimes as informal plural [[punx]]|lang=en}} A person |
# {{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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⚫ | #*: 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'''? |
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====Usage notes==== |
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The most common |
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. |
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{{trans-top-also|the bottom in a male-male sexual relationship|bottom}} |
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{{trans-top|a person |
{{trans-top|a person of that movement, a punk rocker}} |
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* Czech: {{t+|cs|pankáč|m}}, {{t|cs|punker|m}} |
* Czech: {{t+|cs|pankáč|m}}, {{t|cs|punker|m}} |
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* Finnish: {{t|fi|punkkari}} |
* Finnish: {{t|fi|punkkari}} |
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{{trans-top|a utensil for lighting fireworks resembling stick incense}} |
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# Of, or resembling the punk [[subculture]] |
# Of, from, or resembling the [[#Noun|punk]] [[subculture]]. |
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#: ''You look very '''punk''' with your t-shirt, piercing and chains. |
#: ''You look very '''punk''' with your t-shirt, piercing and chains. |
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#: ''Tony '''punked-out''' Vinny when he was low on smokes.'' |
#: ''Tony '''punked-out''' Vinny when he was low on smokes.'' |
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# To forcibly perform [[anal sex]] upon an unwilling partner. |
# To forcibly perform [[anal sex]] upon an unwilling partner. |
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# To [[prank]]. |
# To [[prank]]. |
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#: ''I got expelled when I '''punked''' the principal.'' |
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# 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]]. |
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#: ''Jimmy was going to help me with the prank, but he '''punked |
#: ''Jimmy was going to help me with the prank, but he '''punked''' (out) at the last minute.'' |
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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. |
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* [[cyberpunk]] |
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* [[ska punk]] |
* [[ska punk]] |
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Revision as of 01:03, 9 April 2014
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)
- (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.
- And made them fight, like mad or drunk,
- (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.
- (deprecated template usage) (countable) A juvenile delinquent; a young petty criminal or trouble-maker; a hoodlum.
- (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?
- 1971, Harry Julian Fink, R.M. Fink, Dean Riesner, Dirty Harry
- (deprecated template usage) (uncountable) A social and musical movement rooted in rebelling against the established order.
- (deprecated template usage) (uncountable) The music of the punk movement, known for short songs with electric guitars, strong drums, and a direct, unproduced approach.
- (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
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Adjective
punk (comparative punker, superlative punkest)
- 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)
- To pimp.
- Tony punked-out Vinny when he was low on smokes.
- To forcibly perform anal sex upon an unwilling partner.
- Ricky punked his new cell-mates.
- To prank.
- I got expelled when I punked the principal.
- (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
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)
- (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.
- 1899, H. B. Cushman, History of the Choctaw, Chickasaw and Natchez Indians, p271
- (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!
- 1907, Jack London, The Road, [2]
References
French
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Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] English punk.
Pronunciation
- (deprecated use of
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parameter) IPA(key): /pønk/
Noun
punk m (plural punks)
Adjective
punk (feminine punke, masculine plural punks, feminine plural punkes)
Norwegian Bokmål
Pronunciation
- (deprecated use of
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parameter) IPA(key): /pøŋk/
Noun
punk m (definite singular punken, uncountable)
Alternative forms
- English terms derived from Spanish
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- English countable nouns
- English terms with obsolete senses
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- English adjectives
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- English terms derived from Unami
- English words with different meanings in different locations
- French terms derived from English
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- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French countable nouns
- French terms spelled with K
- French masculine nouns
- French adjectives
- Norwegian Bokmål terms with IPA pronunciation
- Norwegian Bokmål lemmas
- Norwegian Bokmål nouns
- Norwegian Bokmål uncountable nouns
- Norwegian Bokmål masculine nouns