Synonyms for punk

Grammar : Noun

Spell : puhngk

Phonetic Transcription : pʌŋk

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Définition of punk

Origin : "inferior, bad," 1896, also as a noun, "something worthless," earlier "rotten wood used as tinder" (1680s), "A word in common use in New England, as well as in the other Northern States and Canada" [Bartlett]; perhaps from Delaware (Algonquian) ponk, literally "dust, powder, ashes;" but Gaelic spong "tinder" also has been suggested (cf. spunk "touchwood, tinder," 1580s).

noun hoodlum

Example sentences :

But you certainly were all to the punk in your judgment about that game.
Extract from : « Rival Pitchers of Oakdale » by Morgan Scott

Of accursed data, it seems to me that punk is pretty damnable.
Extract from : « The Book of the Damned » by Charles Fort

They were all sizes, but most of them were large, and you need not “punk” them to see if they were ripe.
Extract from : « The Flight of Pony Baker » by W. D. Howells

And then the truth was driven in that my new rags were punk.
Extract from : « Rippling Rhymes » by Walt Mason

I 'clare I dunno, Mas' Sam, 'thout you got some flints an' punk in your pockets.
Extract from : « The Big Brother » by George Cary Eggleston

The outside of the log was nothing but punk, or the operation would have been a failure.
Extract from : « Four Young Explorers » by Oliver Optic

The receptacle was filled with the ash of punk and charcoal.
Extract from : « The Pagan Madonna » by Harold MacGrath

Some of the singers and others I have listened in on have been punk.
Extract from : « The Campfire Girls of Roselawn » by Margaret Penrose

But, blow as he would, there came no glow in the punk, no rise of smoke.
Extract from : « Rising Wolf the White Blackfoot » by James Willard Schultz

When the punk is thoroughly soaked, stick the pieces in the holes.
Extract from : « The Boy Craftsman » by A. Neely Hall

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