Synonyms for punch

Grammar : Noun, verb

Spell : puhnch

Phonetic Transcription : pʌntʃ

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Définition of punch

Origin : "to thrust, push; jostle;" also, "prod, to drive (cattle, etc.) by poking and prodding," late 14c., from Old French ponchonner "to punch, prick, stamp," from ponchon "pointed tool, piercing weapon" (see punch (n.1)). Meaning "to pierce, emboss with a tool" is from early 15c.; meaning "to stab, puncture" is from mid-15c. To punch a ticket, etc., is from mid-15c. To punch the clock "record one's arrival at or departure from the workplace using an automated timing device" is from 1900. Related: Punched; punching.
Perhaps you are some great big chief, who has a lot to say.Who lords it o'er the common herd who chance to come your way;Well, here is where your arrogance gets a dreadful shock,When you march up, like a private, salute, and PUNCH THE CLOCK.[from "Punch the Clock," by "The Skipper," "The Commercial Telegraphers' Journal," May 1912]
Specialized sense "to hit with the fist" first recorded 1520s. Cf. Latin pugnare "to fight with the fists," from a root meaning "to pierce, sting." In English this was probably influenced by punish; "punch" or "punsch" for "punish" is found in documents from 14c.-15c.:
punchyth me, Lorde, and spare my blyssyd wyff Anne. [Coventry Mystery Plays, late 15c.]
To punch (someone) out "beat up" is from 1971.

noun hit
noun energy, vigor
verb perforate, prick

Example sentences :

This operation is performed by the aid of a punch and die fitted into a screw-press.
Extract from : « The Story of the Invention of Steel Pens » by Henry Bore

This affair had set us drinking, and I got a good deal of punch aboard.
Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper

Well, then, I will turn back with you; but the punch will all be gone, mark my words.
Extract from : « In the Valley » by Harold Frederic

But this time the cigar and the punch seemed to fail of their effect.
Extract from : « Night and Morning, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Carton, still drinking the punch, rejoined, "Why should I be astonished?"
Extract from : « A Tale of Two Cities » by Charles Dickens

Carton, still drinking the punch, rejoined, "Why should I not approve?"
Extract from : « A Tale of Two Cities » by Charles Dickens

Why, marry, I can brew a bowl of punch, and I can broil a devilled fowl.
Extract from : « Micah Clarke » by Arthur Conan Doyle

Presently he went into the dockshed on his unending quest of "the punch."
Extract from : « The Harbor » by Ernest Poole

You'll get a punch on the jaw in a minute, young fellow me lad!
Extract from : « Changing Winds » by St. John G. Ervine

Give the Public what it wants; and what the Public wants is punch and go.
Extract from : « Hall-Marked and Others (From Six Short Plays) » by John Galsworthy

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