From en.wiktionary.org:
[-punk]
** English
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Etymology 1
[en]. Possibly from [en], attested since 1678, to anything worthless
(attested since 1869) and then to any undesirable person (since 1908). The
relatively tame 21st century usage of [en] was popularized by the American
television show _[Punk'd]_ (2003).
**** Noun
[~]
1. [en] One who engages in sexual intercourse , particularly:
1. [en] One who is paid for sex . [1575]
2. * [act=V]
3. * [year=1905]
4. * [page=22]
5. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1936 | author=Anthony Bertram | title=Like the Phoenix
|passage=However, terrible as it may seem to the tall maiden sisters of J.P.'s
in Queen Anne houses with walled vegetable gardens, this courtesan, strumpet,
harlot, whore, PUNK, fille de joie, street-walker, this trollop, this trull,
this baggage, this hussy, this drab, skit, rig, quean, mopsy, demirep,
demimondaine, this wanton, this fornicatress, this doxy, this concubine, this
frail sister, this poor Queenie—did actually solicit me, did actually say
'coming home to-night, dearie' and my soul was not blasted enough to call a
policeman.}}
1. [en] A boy or young er man who engages in sexual intercourse by an older man as a (usually passive ) homosexual partner. [from 1698]
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1698 | title=Womens Complaint to Venus
|passage=The Beaus...<br>At night make a PUNK of him that's first drunk.}}
1. [en] A passive or effeminate homosexual man.
2. [en] A boy who accompanies a hobo , especially as use d for sex . [from 1893]
3. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1973 | author=Barry Broadfoot | title=Ten Lost Years, 1929-1939: Memories of Canadians who survived the Depression | page=137
|passage=They'd pick up youngsters as, well—as their playthings. These kids
were called PUNKS.}}
1. [en] A male homosexual . [from 1933]
2. [en] A man force d or coerce d into a homosexual relationship , especially in prison . [from 1946]
3. * [page=15]
4. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2001 | author=Joseph T. Hallinan | title=Going Up the River: Travels in a Prison Nation | page=106
|passage=If he is small and weak, he may decide to become a ‘ PUNK’ and allow
himself to be raped by the inmate most likely to protect him.}}
1. [en] A worthless person, particularly: [from 1904]
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1933 | author=w:Ernest Hemingway | page=94 | title=Winner Take Nothing
|passage=This fellow was just a PUNK... a nobody.}}
1. [en] Any person, especially a male comrade . [from 1904]
2. [en] A petty criminal , especially a juvenile delinquent . [from 1908]
3. * {{ quote-journal | en | date=October 18 1908 | journal=w:New York Times | page=9
|passage=He said the prisoner called them ‘ PUNK’... He admitted that he
shouted ‘ PUNK’ to them.}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1963 | author=w:Thomas Pynchon | title= :w:V. | page=145
|passage=There was nothing so special about the gang, PUNKS are PUNKS.}}
1. * [en]
2. [en] A weak , timid person. [from 1939]
3. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1950 | author=w:Hal Ellson | title=Tomboy | page=12
|passage=Do you think a little thing like a scratch would bother me? I'm no
PUNK.}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2006 | author=Kali James | title=Can U Get Away? | page=17
|passage=Taking him home she hemmed him up soon as they stepped in the door.
Now Tony was a bad dude in the streets but when it came to his mama, he was a
PUNK. A few cuss words on her part had him spilling everything.}}
1. [en] . [from 1923]
2. [en] A young , untrained animal or worker . [from 1926]
1. [en] A group of associated musical , artistic and social movements emerging out of the counterculture in the 1970s:
1. [en] [en] . [1970]
2. * {{ quote-journal | en | year=1972 | month=November | author=L. Bangs | journal=Creem | page=68
|passage=Who else... would have the nerve to actually begin a song with the
line ‘Whatchew gonna do, mama, now that the roast beef's gone...?’ Man, that
is true PUNK; that is so fucked up it's got class up the ass.}}
1. [en] The fashion style associated with punk rock, typically involving leather , metal stud s and pins , distressed clothing and confrontational slogan s.
2. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1999 | author=Lauraine Leblanc | title=Pretty in Punk: Girls' Gender Resistance in a Boys' Subculture | publisher=Rutgers University Press | isbn=9780813526515 | page=157
|text=Thus, punk girls combined elements of female dress (bodysuits, skirts)
with PUNK accessories (bullet belt, emocore shirt) to create a distinctly
female PUNK look that's "as girly" as they get.}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | date=2014-07-15 | author=Ann Brooks | title=Popular Culture: Global Intercultural Perspectives | publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing | isbn=9781137426727 | page=61
|text=Dame Vivienne Westwood is a British fashion designer and businesswoman.
Largely responsible for bringing modern PUNK and new-wave fashions into the
mainstream, she epitomises haute couture of the modern era.}}
1. The larger nonconformist social movement associate d with punk rock and its fan s.
2. [en] Any of the -punk genre s, typically involving anachronistic technology and its social impact : dieselpunk , solarpunk , steampunk etc.
3. * {{ quote-book | en | date=2022-06-15 | author=ENC1101 Editorial Board | title=Composition and Grammar: For HCC by HCC | publisher=Accomplishing Innovative Press | isbn=9781644505977
|text=Some of these genres produce unique and intriguing subculture groups,
usually referred to as types of " PUNKS": cyberpunk, teslapunk, atompunk,
biopunk, etc.}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | date=2022-02-03 | author=Rick Dakan | author2=Ryan G. Van Cleave | title=Writing Sci-Fi, Fantasy, & Horror For Dummies | publisher=John Wiley & Sons | isbn=9781119839101 | page=196
|text= PUNK stories look at the current dominant socioeconomic paradigm and
don't like what they see. They look at the newest gadget or algorithm and see
how it can be misused and abused. }}
1. [en] A follower of any of these movements, including:
1. [en] [en] . [1976]
2. * [page=22]
3. A person who designs or dresses in punk fashion style.
4. A member of the punk social movement; usually anarchist and socially non-conformist although potentially either left-wing or right-wing .
5. * {{ quote-book | en | year=2013 | author=Carole Counihan | author2=Penny Van Esterik | title=Food and Culture: A Reader | publisher=Routledge | isbn=9780415521031 | page=236
|text=In the daily praxis of punk, vegetarianism and veganism are strategies
through which many PUNKS combat corporate capitalism, patriarchy, and
environmental collapse.}}
1. [en] A fan of a -punk genre of fiction, or a person who dresses in a style associated with it.
***** Descendants
[top3]
- [ar]
- [ca]
- [zh]
- [nl]
- [fi]
- [fi]
- [fr]
- [gl]
- [de]
- [he]
- [is]
- [ja]
- [mr]
- [nb]
- [nn]
- [ko]
- [pt]
- [ro]
- [ru]
- [ka]
- [kk]
- [sh]
- [es]
- [sv]
- [uk]
[col-bottom]
***** Translations
[prostitute]
[receiving partner in a male-male sexual relationship]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru] [slang] , [ru] [slang]
[trans-bottom]
[worthless person]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- Italian: [it]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
[trans-bottom]
[petty criminal]
- Czech: [cs] , [cs] , [cs]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr] [collective noun; female only if in the singular]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
[trans-bottom]
[short form of punk rock]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Kazakh: [kk]
- Korean: [ko]
- Marathi: [mr]
- Norwegian:
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian: [sh]
- Swedish: [sv]
[trans-bottom]
[punk rocker]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs] , [cs]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Georgian: [ka] , [ka]
- German: [de]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Marathi: [mr]
- Norwegian:
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
[trans-bottom]
[punk social movement]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs] , [cs]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- German: [de]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Marathi: [mr]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
[trans-bottom]
**** Adjective
[er]
1. [en] Worthless , contemptible , particularly [1907]
1. Bad , substandard .
2. * [en ]
3. Thuggish , criminal .
4. [en] Cowardly . [1930]
5. * [1=en ]
6. Poorly , sickly .
7. * [en ]
8. Inexperienced .
2. Of or concerning punk rock or its associated subculture . [1971]
3. * [en-GB]
**** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To pimp .
2. [en] To forcibly perform anal sex upon (an unwilling partner).
3. * [en]
4. * [en]
5. [en] [en] To prank .
6. * [en-US]
7. [en] To give up or concede; to act like a wimp .
8. [en] To adapt or embellish in the style of the punk movement.
9. * [en]
10. * [en]
11. * [en]
***** Usage notes
- 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.
**** Derived terms
{{col|en |Afropunk |anarcho-punk |antipunk |art punk |atompunk |bindle punk
|biopunk |Celtic punk |clockpunk |country punk |cowpunk |crust punk |cyberpunk
|cypherpunk |deathpunk |dieselpunk |edupunk |electropunk |folk-punk |folk punk
|garage-punk |garage punk |genderpunk |glam punk |hardcore punk |hinkypunk
|horror punk |hunky punk |industrial punk |mannerpunk |neopunk |pickled punk
|pop-punk |pop punk |positive punk |postpunk |post-punk |post-punk revival
|prepunk |protopunk |punkabilly |punkadelic |punk-ass |punk-blues |punkdom
|punked |punker |punkette |punkily |punking |punkish |punkitude |punk-jazz
|punk jazz |punklike |punk-like |punkling |punk music |punk out |punk rock
|punk rocker |punks out |punkster |punky |punk zine |punkzine |sailpunk
|sandalpunk |seapunk |ska-punk |ska punk |skatepunk |skate punk |splatterpunk
|steampunk |surfpunk |surf punk |synthpunk |technopunk |unpunk }}
*** Etymology 2
Unclear; first attested circa 1680 in writings about Native American
practices,[1][2] probably from [en],[3][4] though it has also been suggested
it could be an alteration of [en] (compare [en]).<ref name="MWO"/>
**** Noun
[~]
1. [en] [en] Any material used as tinder for lighting fires, such as agaric , dried wood , or touchwood , but especially wood altered by certain fungi.
2. * 1707 , [John Clayton (botanist)] , _Virginia_ in _Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London_ XLI, page 149:
3. *: As the East-Indians use Moxa, so these burn with PUNK , which is the inward Part of the Excrescence or Exuberance of an Oak.
4. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1756 | author=w:John Bartram | editor=William Darlington | title=Memorials of John Bartram and Humphry Marshall | year_published=1849
|passage=If they attack a house that is pretty well manned, they [Indians in
Pennsylvania] creep behind some fence, or hedge, or tree, and shoot red-hot
iron slugs, or PUNK, into the roof, and fire the house [...]}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1899 | author=H. B. Cushman | title=History of the Choctaw, Chickasaw and Natchez Indians | page=271
|passage=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; ...}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1922 | author=Harry Ignatius Marshall | title=The Karen People of Burma | page=61
|passage=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.}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2001 | author=William W. Johnstone | title=War of the Mountain Man | page=116
|passage=He made him a little smoldering pocket of PUNK to light the fuses and
waited.}}
1. [en] A utensil for lighting wicks or fuses (such as those of fireworks) resembling stick incense.
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1907 | author=Jack London | title=The Road | url=http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/14658
|passage=On the end a coal of fire slowly smouldered. It would last for
hours, and my cell-mate called it a " PUNK."}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1994 | author=Ashland Price | title=Viking Tempest | page=353
|passage=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.}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2004 | author=Shawn Shiflett | title=Hidden Place | page=221
|passage=He raised the cylinder high in the air with his bare hand, used a
PUNK to light the fuse, and _KABOOM_!}}
*** References
References:
[1]. [R:Dictionary.com]
[2]. [R:MWO]
[3]. _Lenape Talking Dictionary_ , punkw (see https://web.archive.org/web/20160307134317/http://www.talk-lenape.org/detail.php?id=8970)
[4]. Robert K. Barnhart (editor), _The Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology_ (H. W. Wilson, 1988), page 864: "Probably borrowed from Algonquian (Delaware) _ponk_ , literally, living ashes."
- [entry=punk]
[en]
** Catalan
*** Etymology
[ca].
*** Pronunciation
- [pank]
*** Noun
[m]
1. [en]
**** Related terms
- [ca]
[ca]
** Dutch
*** Etymology
[nl].
*** Pronunciation
- [nl]
- [nl]
- [nl]
*** Noun
[m]
1. [nl] [en] , punk rock [rock genre]
**** Derived terms
{{col4|nl |punkband |punker |punkkapsel |punkrock }}
*** Noun
[m]
1. [nl] a punk [member of the punk subculture, fan of punk rock]
** French
[Punk]
*** Etymology
[fr].
*** Pronunciation
- [peuŋk]
- [fr]
*** Noun
[m]
1. [en] [fr]
*** Adjective
[fr-adj]
1. [en]
** Norwegian Bokmål
*** Alternative forms
- [nb]
*** Etymology
[nb].
*** Pronunciation
- [nb]
*** Noun
[nb-noun-mu]
1. punk music
*** References
- [R:BD]
** Norwegian Nynorsk
*** Alternative forms
- [nn]
*** Etymology
[nn].
*** Pronunciation
- [nn]
*** Noun
[nn-noun-mu]
1. punk music
*** References
- [R:ND]
** Polish
[lang=pl]
*** Alternative forms
- [pl]
*** Etymology
[pl].
*** Pronunciation
[pank]
*** Noun
[m-in]
1. [pl] punk [social and musical movement]
2. [pl] punk , punk rock [subgenre of rock music]
**** Declension
[tantum=s]
*** Noun
[m-pr]
1. [pl] [en] , punk rocker [person who plays punk rock]
2. [pl] [en] , punk rocker [person who is a fan of punk rock]
**** Declension
[pl-decl-noun-m-pr]
**** Derived terms
[pl] [pl] [pl]
**** Related terms
[pl] [pl]
*** Further reading
- [62387]
- [R:pl:PWN]
[pl]
** Portuguese
*** Etymology
[pt].
*** Pronunciation
[panki^]
- [pt]
*** Noun
[m]
1. [en] [a social and musical movement]
2. [en] ; punk rock [a subgenre of rock music]
3. * [pt]
*** Noun
[mfbysense]
1. [en] [a member of the punk movement or fan of punk rock]
*** Adjective
[inv=1]
1. [pt] [en] [relating to punk music or culture]
2. [pt] complicated, difficult, tense
** Romanian
*** Etymology
[ro].
*** Adjective
[inv]
1. [en]
**** Declension
[inv]
** Spanish
*** Etymology
[es].
*** Pronunciation
[+]
*** Noun
[m]
1. [es] [a member of the punk movement or fan of punk rock]
**** Derived terms
[es]
**** Related terms
[es]
*** Further reading
- [R:es:DRAE]
- Diccionario panhispánico de dudas (see https://www.rae.es/dpd/punk)
[es]
** Swedish
[lang=sv] [lang=sv]
*** Etymology
[sv].
*** Noun
[c]
1. punk rock
2. [en] [nonconformist social movement]
**** Declension
[2=punken]
**** Derived terms
- [sv]
- [sv]
*** References
- [so]
- [saol]