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Punk   /pəŋk/   Listen
noun
Punk  n.  
1.
Wood so decayed as to be dry, crumbly, and useful for tinder; touchwood.
2.
A fungus (Polyporus fomentarius, etc.) sometimes dried for tinder; agaric.
3.
An artificial tinder. See Amadou, and Spunk.
4.
A prostitute; a strumpet. (Obsoles.)





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"Punk" Quotes from Famous Books



... had just fed the Punk Lady waltz into the pianola for the fourth time as we pulls up ...
— Odd Numbers - Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe • Sewell Ford
... in Pennyfields, many times a day, This person pays respect to Big Man Joss, And burns to him prayer-papers and punk-sticks. ...
— Song Book of Quong Lee of Limehouse • Thomas Burke
... in the right, my venerable cropshin, they will indeed; the tongue of the oracle never twang'd truer. Your courtier cannot kiss his mistress's slippers in quiet for them; nor your white innocent gallant pawn his revelling suit to make his punk a supper. An honest decayed commander cannot skelder, cheat, nor be seen in a bawdy-house, but he shall be straight in one of their wormwood comedies. They are grown licentious, the rogues; libertines, flat libertines. They forget they are in the statute, the rascals; they are blazon'd ...
— The Poetaster - Or, His Arraignment • Ben Jonson
... hand he took out of the basket a small vessel in which punk was burning slowly, and he lighted the ...
— The Pharaoh and the Priest - An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt • Boleslaw Prus
... bring me more wood; this cotton wood is so dry, it burns out like rotten punk; I'm off my feet to-night, with all these men to cook for;" then turning to the table, she began cutting her bread, and did not see how tall and unlike Ramon was the man who silently rose and went out to do her bidding. When, ...
— Ramona • Helen Hunt Jackson


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