punkish
World English Dictionary
punk1 (pʌŋk) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a. a youth movement of the late 1970s, characterized by anti-Establishment slogans and outrageous clothes and hairstyles |
| b. an adherent of punk | |
| c. short for punk rock | |
| d. (as modifier): a punk record | |
| 2. | an inferior, rotten, or worthless person or thing |
| 3. | worthless articles collectively |
| 4. | a petty criminal or hoodlum |
| 5. | obsolete a young male homosexual; catamite |
| 6. | obsolete a prostitute |
| —adj | |
| 7. | inferior, rotten, or worthless |
| [C16: via Polari from Spanish pu(n)ta prostitute,pu(n)to male prostitute] | |
| 'punkish1 | |
| —adj | |
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Punkish
is always a great word to know.
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| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
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