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Punkie

noun
1.
Minute two-winged insect that sucks the blood of mammals and birds and other insects.  Synonyms: biting midge, no-see-um, punkey, punky.






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"Punkie" Quotes from Famous Books



... sudden advent of a shower; and the shower drove about all the punkies and mosquitoes in the neighborhood under our roof for shelter. I never saw them more plentiful or worse. Jean gave in and varnished his pelt thoroughly with my "punkie dope," as he called it; but, too late: the mischief was done. And the second trial was worse to those youngsters than the first. More insects. More stubs and knots. Owing to these little annoyances, they arrived ...
— Woodcraft • George W. Sears



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