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▪ I. punk, n.1 Obs. or rare arch.|pʌŋk|
Forms: 6–7 punck(e, 7 punke, punque, (pung), 7–9 punk.
[Appears c 1600; of unknown origin.]
A prostitute, strumpet, harlot.
1596Lodge Incarn. Deuils Wks. (Hunter. Soc.) IV. 69 He hath a Punck (as the pleasant Singer cals her). 1603Shakes. Meas. for M. v. i. 179 She may be a Puncke: for many of them, are neither Maid, Widow, nor Wife. 1607Middleton Michaelm. Term iii. i. E ij b, I may grace her with the name of a Curtizan, a Backslider, a Prostitution, or such a Toy, but when all comes to al tis but a plaine Pung. 1785Wolcott (P. Pindar) Odes to R.A.'s iii. Wks. 1812 I. 84 Like a poor pilloried Punk he bawled. 1894Gladstone Horace's Odes i. xxxv. 25 The fickle herd, the perjured punk, Fall off. 1928A. Huxley Point Counter Point xxix. 478 It amused him to hear the cast-off locutions of duchesses in the mouth of this ageing prostitute... The poor super⁓annuated punk was so gruesome.
Comb.1610B. Jonson Alch. iv. iii, This is a trauell'd punque-master. 1789Wolcott (P. Pindar) Expostul. Ode xvi. Wks. II. 249 If Empresses will Punk-like kiss and drink.
Hence † punk v. intr., to have to do with punks.
1719D'Urfey Pills VI. 212 We scorn to Punk, or to be drunk.
▪ II. † punk, n.2 Obs. rare—1.
[app. connected with punch n.1 and puncture.]
A punch.
1670E. Brown in Phil. Trans. V. 1198 They cut them out into round pieces with an Instrument like a Shomakers Punk.
▪ III. punk, n.3 Chiefly U.S.|pʌŋk|
Also 8 punck.
[Of obscure origin. For the senses cf. funk n.1 2, spunk.
Perh. N. Amer. Indian: cf. punkie n. Some conjecture a clipt form of spunk ‘touchwood, tinder’ (in Stanyhurst 1582).]
1. a. Rotten wood, or a fungus growing on wood, used in a dry state for tinder; touchwood, amadou.
1705R. Beverley Hist. & Present State Virginia iii. 49 Or else they take Punck, (which is a sort of a soft Touchwood, cut out of the knots of Oak or Hiccory Trees, but the Hiccory affords the best). c1707J. Clayton Virginia in Phil. Trans. XLI. 149 As the East-Indians use Moxa [in blistering], so these burn with Punk, which is the inward Part of the Excrescence or Exuberance of an Oak. 1756J. Bartram in Darlington Mem. (1849) 206 They [Indians]..shoot red-hot iron slugs, or punk, into the roof, and fire the house. 1792J. Belknap Hist. New Hampshire III. 94 They [sc. the Indians] raised a blister by burning punk or touchwood on the skin. 1866Lindley & Moore Treas. Bot. II. 941/2 Punk. Touchwood or vegetable tinder. 1908E. T. Seton Two Little Sav. iii. viii. 321 Caleb worked on the hollow log... With the hatchet he cleared out all the punk and splinters inside. 1923J. H. Cook Fifty Years on Old Frontier 15 Each man carries a flint and steel, together with a piece of punk. 1924Jrnl. Polynesian Soc. XXXIII. 155 The Maori..carried live fire. To do so he procured..dry material of slow combustion... A kind of punk that grows on trees, [was] used for this purpose. 1936M. Franklin All that Swagger iii. 29 Should the fire die out, a greasy rag, ignited by firing it from the gun, could be applied to punk. 1956Te Ao Hou (Wellington, N.Z.) July 24/2 Little has been recorded of this bracket fungus and its importance in the generation of fire and in carrying fire... In the Thames district..it was known as ‘punk’ to the early settlers, who learned of its use from the Maoris. 1965Austral. Encycl. VII. 313/2 Such forest pathogens as Fomes setulosus and Polyporus portentosus..are often called brown punk and white punk respectively. 1972Science 27 Oct. 395/2 In moxibustion only gentle warmth is allowed by the smoldering punk applied on the flesh. 1976Yankee Apr. 107/1 Wind Bird's hull looked like a honeycomb with the intervening wood turned to punk.
b. transf. Something worthless; foolish or empty talk; nonsense, rubbish. colloq.
1869J. M. Hoppin Office & Wk. Chr. Ministry ii. ii. 315 Better have the simplest..thoughts, clearly expressed, than what Carlyle calls ‘phosphorescent punk and nothingness’. 1900Ade More Fables in Slang (1902) 212 Well, if they are Right, then I must be Wrong, but to me it is Punk. 1927D. L. Sayers Unnatural Death xxi. 243 We..men stuff ourselves up with the idea that they're romantic and unemotional. All punk, my son. 1938‘J. Bell’ Port of London Murders ix. 164, I told him a lot of punk about..a secret process, but..he knew it was all my eye. 1958‘A. Gilbert’ Death against Clock viii. 109 After all, except for the kids, presents seem to me punk. 1970‘D. Halliday’ Dolly & Cookie Bird v. 73, I told him what Celeste said about Capricorn and Scorpio, and he said, ‘Honestly, Sarah. You don't believe all that punk?’ 1973in Times 30 May 5/5, I don't like the family Stein. There is Gert, there is Ep, there is Ein. Gert's writings are punk, Ep's statues are junk, Nor can anyone understand Ein.
c. Bread. punk and plaster, bread and butter. slang.
1891Contemp. Rev. Aug. 255 Bread is called ‘punk’ [by tramps]. 1899‘J. Flynt’ Tramping with Tramps i. vi. 140 Coffee, a little meat, some potatoes, and ‘punk an' plaster’ (bread and butter). 1925[see mud n.1 2 e]. 1961R. P. Hobson Rancher takes Wife ii. 45 Jack Lee..took a large slice of my bread, munched on it thoughtfully, and then pronounced it—‘Good punk!’ 1975J. Gores Hammett (1976) i. 14 ‘Punk and plaster?’ ‘You bet.’ The waiter picked up his tray... ‘What's punk and plaster?’ ‘Bread and butter. Con talk.’
2. A composition that will smoulder when ignited, used to touch off fireworks.
1869Aldrich Story of Bad Boy 92 The smaller sort of fireworks, such as pin-wheels, serpents, double-headers, and punk warranted not to go out.
3. Chinese incense: cf. joss-stick (joss1 3).
1870Schele de Vere Americanisms 157 A Chinese lady of rank in San Francisco walks attended by three maids of honor, bearing lighted sticks of punk highly perfumed. 1880Harper's Mag. Dec. 73 Before the ancestral tablets..incense was consumed, punk or joss-sticks. 1890Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 10 May 5/8 The burning of innumerable sticks of bamboo punk, which sent forth a faint, sickening odor. 1953H. Miller Plexus ii. viii. 12 The third night we burned Chinese punk and incense.
4. slang.
a. [This sense may be influenced by punk n.1] A passive male homosexual, a catamite; a tramp's young companion or ‘gunsel’.
1904‘No. 1500’ Life in Sing Sing 251/1 Punk,..a pervert. 1926J. Black You can't Win (1927) x. 129 The ‘punks’, young bums, were sent for ‘mickies’, bottles of alcohol. 1927[see gunsel 1]. 1950[see gay-cat s.v. gay a. 9]. 1973B. Broadfoot Ten Lost Years x. 137 They [sc. hoboes]'d pick up youngsters as, well—as their playthings. These kids were called punks. 1977New Yorker 24 Oct. 64/3 The involuntary homosexuals tend to be good-looking young men..forced into becoming jailhouse ‘punks’ by older men serving long sentences.
b. A person of no account, a worthless fellow; a young hooligan or petty criminal. Also gen., as a term of contempt or abuse.
1917[see mutt c]. 1928M. C. Sharpe Chicago May xxxi. 287/1 Punk, apprentice thief. 1930D. Hammett Maltese Falcon xviii. 216 We've absolutely got to give them a victim... Let's give them the punk... He actually did shoot both of them..didn't he? 1930Sat. Even. Post 26 July 146/2 ‘Listen to me, you big punk!’ he growled ominously. ‘What do you think we are—a lot of fools?’ 1933E. Hemingway Winner take Nothing 94 This fellow was just a punk..a nobody. 1939C. R. Cooper Designs in Scarlet ii. 18 Punks like him—sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen years old. Ibid. iii. 37 ‘The punks’, as youthful offenders are often called. 1940Sun (Baltimore) 29 Mar. 17/4 This happens to be the Bomber's tenth defense. Most of them bums or punks? 1949Chicago Tribune 10 Dec. 10 This punk must have robbed a bank or got paid off for settin' a forest fire! 1953W. Burroughs Junkie iv. 50 Two young punks got off a train carrying a lush between them. 1959H. Nielsen Fifth Caller xiv. 207, I was a punk then... Fourteen years old and just a little punk... Then I began to fill out. I ain't a punk no more. 1963T. Pynchon V. vi. 145 There was nothing so special about the gang, punks are punks. 1964V. S. Naipaul Area of Darkness ix. 245, I went back to the hotel. The telephone rang. ‘Hallo, punk.’ 1967Boston Sunday Herald 30 Apr. 1.16/3 Berke has no sympathy for the ‘punks’ who act up in school, assault teachers or destroy property. 1976‘D. Halliday’ Dolly & Nanny Bird ix. 113 Punks give their kids a punk childhood which leads to the next generation of punks. 1978J. Updike Coup vi. 246 ‘Uh— think you've come to the wrong place. Hasn't he?’..‘You bet the punk has.’
c. In show business: a youth or novice; a young circus animal. Also transf.
1923N.Y. Times 9 Sept. vii. 2/1 Punk, an amateur. 1926Amer. Speech I. 282 Punk, a baby lion or other young animal. 1926Maines & Grant Wise-Crack Dict. 12/1 Punk, child in show business. 1942Amer. Speech XVII. 223/2 Punk, a boy or any young man not yet professionally dry behind the ears. 1971Islander (Victoria, B.C.) 19 Dec. 6/2 At least 71, cantankerous Lizzie's trunk had been paralyzed as the result of once having overzealously disciplined a young elephant, or ‘punk’.
d. Short for (a) punk rock; (b) punk-rocker. (Only these senses are widely current outside the United States.)
1974New Yorker 20 May 142/3, I was getting a naïve kick out of watching a woman play rock-and-roll punk. 1976New Musical Express 24 Jan. 20 He's strictly for white dopes high on punks. Ibid. 17 Apr. 43/1 Johnny Rotten..has the makings of a good punk. 1976Sunday Times 28 Nov. 37/4 Johnny Rotten and the Sex Pistols are punks. They sing ‘Anarchy in the UK.’ Ibid. 37/5 Punk will fade. Its apologists are ludicrous. 1977Evening News 27 Apr. 11/1 London's growing army of punks have developed a powerful animosity for teds... For the uninitiated, punks..are the ones who match short, ragged hair with short ragged leather jackets. 1978Gramophone May 1954/1 John Cale..could be branded one of the original punks as a member of Velvet Underground. 1979Time 30 July 76 The music on this record..is full of brash challenge, like the best punk.
5. Special Combinations.
a. (In sense 1), as punk-box, a tinder-box; punk-knot, a protuberance in wood, indicating inward decay (Funk's Stand. Dict.); punk-oak, the water oak, Quercus nigra; punk-wood = sense 1.
1862Burton Bk. Hunter i. 46 As soon would you be tempted to pull out your meerschaum and *punk-box in a cathedral.
1920Bull. U.S. Dept. Agric. No. 871. 20 The sporophores..which I find occasionally..on old *punk knots from which the original sporophores have fallen and are reviving. 1934Forestry VIII. 155 One of the most characteristic and interesting symptoms of Trametes pini rot is the so-called punk knot, a mass of brownish friable substance that develops round embedded branch stubs.
1884C. S. Sargent Rep. Forests N. Amer. 152 Quercus aquatica... Possum Oak. *Punk Oak... Probably not used except as fuel. 1897G. B. Sudworth Nomencl. Arborescent Flora U.S. 175 Common names [of the water oak] include..Duck Oak, Possum Oak, Punk Oak.
1883E. Ingersoll in Harper's Mag. Feb. 427/2 She opened a flint-and-tinder box, and struck a spark into the *punk-wood. 1903S. E. White Forest 180 Sometimes a faint rounded shell..swelled above the level, to crumble to punkwood at the lightest touch of our feet.
b. (In sense 4), as punk band, punk critic, punk fan, punk hater, punk kid, punk style; punk-related, punk-styled adjs. punk chic [after radical chic s.v. radical a. 3 f], a fashionable style of design reflecting the unconventional aspects of a punk-rocker's dress or appearance; also in adj. use.
1976Melody Maker 11 Sept. 37/6 Even in Britain there's a *punk band called the Suburban Studs. 1977Whig-Standard (Kingston, Ont.) 15 July a1/2 Wherever they go punk bands bring violence.
1977Time 11 July 49/1 Of late, *punk chic has even been taken up by a few high-fashion designers. 1977Sniffin' Glue July 3 The sickest thing is the Zandra Rhodes ‘punk chic’ look. 1977Zigzag Aug. 5/1, I dunno about fur coats but anyone who wears them Harpers and Queen punk chic outfits is in order for laying out.
1977Rolling Stone 13 Jan. 20/3 Bangs and Meltzer usually know the difference but most of their followers and fellow *punk critics do not.
1977Whig-Standard (Kingston, Ont.) 15 July a1/2 The *punk fans fight with other young groups. 1977Western Morning News 1 Sept. 1/3 Mysterious posters..have appeared all over Plymouth in the hope that punk fans will read between the lines.
1977Sounds 1 Jan., Have these *Punk haters really thought about what they've heard?
1908J. M. Sullivan Criminal Slang 17 *Punk kid, a boy who begs and panhandles for yeggmen. 1935Amer. Speech X. 19/2 Punk kid, an apprentice who works with any crook. 1939C. R. Cooper Designs in Scarlet ii. 22 ‘We've got to kill 'em,’ said a cop bluntly, ‘or they'll kill us. Punk kids are dangerous.’ 1939R. Chandler Big Sleep xiv. 115 That punk kid?.. The kid that works at the store. 1954Cosmopolitan June 87/2 Small time, a punk kid, am I? 1977New Yorker 23 May 32/2 When you were a nobody, a punk kid just starting out, didn't anyone ever lend you a helping hand?
1977Ripped & Torn vi. 3 There's only one restriction: Punk/*Punk related stuff only, OK?
1977Sounds 1 Jan., Ten concise memorable songs, in the pop, *punk style,..combine to form a dynamite package.
1977Ibid., Certain elements in what we did..created a taste for a certain kind of thing which meant that others could organise *punk styled bands.
▪ IV. punk, a. orig. U.S.|pʌŋk|
[f. punk n.3]
1. Of timber: decayed; rotten, punky.
1902S. E. White Blazed Trail ii. 18 Supplies ran low unexpectedly; trees turned out ‘punk’. 1904― Blazed Trail Stories iii. 49, I cull every log, big or little, punk or sound, that ain't sawed square.
2. transf. Devoid of worth or sense; poor in quality; disappointing; nonsensical; ‘rotten’. colloq.
1896Ade Artie iii. 23 And this crowd up there was purty-y-y punk. Ibid. xix. 178 They could n't be any punker'n they are now. 1916E. Wallace Let. 13 Nov. in M. Gilbert Winston S. Churchill (1972) III. Compan. ii. 1582 K. J. wants you to do a punk interview with..Churchill. 1929W. Heyliger Builder of Dam 4, I call this a punk way to spend an Easter vacation. 1943Amer. Speech XVIII. 89 Pretty punk [in New Zealand] does some of the work performed in America by lousy. 1949Los Angeles Times 21 May 6 This jail has about as punk, if not the punkest grub I ever packed away. 1972Maclean's Mag. Mar. 48/2 When my uncle became mayor of Sherbrooke he spoke a pretty punk French.
3. Comb., as punk-ass a. slang [ass n.2], of a person: worthless, good-for-nothing.
1972J. Wambaugh Blue Knight (1973) vii. 102 A kid, a punk-ass kid, conned me. 1977Zigzag Aug. 12/2 This period of court harassment..went on until July 25th, when I was locked up for good by punk-ass Colombo in Detroit.
▪ V. punk, v. U.S. slang.|pʌŋk|
[f. punk n.3 4 a.]
intr. To back out; to withdraw one's support, to quit.
1920E. Pound Let. 11 Sept. (1971) 157 You lay back, you let me have the whole stinking sweat of providing the mechanical means for letting through the new movement... Then you punk out, cursing me for not being in two places at once, and for ‘seeing no alternative to my own groove’. 1956‘E. McBain’ Cop Hater (1958) x. 92 We never punk out, but we never go lookin' for trouble, either. 1959H. E. Salisbury Shook-Up Generation iv. 65 The Chimp, unfortunately, has a tendency to ‘punk out’ when the fighting gets tough. 1972C. H. Fuller in W. King Black Short Story Anthol. 145 Where was he? She couldn't believe he punked out and stayed away from school. 1977Zigzag Aug. 12/1 Holzman punked out, even after he told us that he wouldn't change after all. |