Punk

Definition: Punk

Punk

Adjective

1. (informal) of very poor quality.

Noun

1. An aggressive and violent young criminal.

2. Substance that smolders when ignited; used to light fuses (especially fireworks).

3. Material for starting a fire.

4. A teenager or young adult who is a performer (or enthusiast) of punk rock and a member of the punk youth subculture.

5. Rock music with deliberately offensive lyrics expressing anger and social alienation; in part a reaction against progressive rock.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "punk" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1598. (references)

Note: Punk \Punk\, noun. [Compare to Spunk.]. (references)

Food & Agriculture

Slang

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Punk

Fuel

Coal, wallsend, anthracite, culm, coke, carbon, charcoal, bituminous coal, tar shale; turf, peat, firewood, bobbing, faggot, log; cinder. (products of combustion); ingle, tinder, touchwood; sulphur, brimstone; incense; port-fire; fire-barrel, fireball, brand; amadou, bavin; blind coal, glance coal; German tinder, pyrotechnic sponge, punk, smudge; solid fueled rocket.

Libertine

Adulteress, advoutress, courtesan, prostitute, strumpet, harlot, whore, punk, fille de joie; woman, woman of the town; streetwalker, Cyprian, miss, piece; frail sisterhood; demirep, wench, trollop, trull, baggage, hussy, drab, bitch, jade, skit, rig, quean, mopsy, minx, harridan; unfortunate, unfortunate female, unfortunate woman; woman of easy virtue; (unchaste); wanton, fornicatress; Jezebel, Messalina, Delilah, Thais, Phryne, Aspasia, Lais, lorette, cocotte, petite dame, grisette; demimonde; chippy; sapphist; spiritual wife; white slave.

Crosswords: Punk

French (punk), German (punk, punk rock), Hungarian (punk), Italian (punk), Spanish (punk), Turkish (punk).

That punk put a hole in my Versace (Mission: Impossible II; writing credit: Bruce Geller; Ronald D. Moore)

Eddie wasn't an anarchist, he wasn't really even a punk. Eddie was into Women (S.L.C. Punk!; writing credit: James Merendino.)

My father was killed making a routine traffic stop in broad daylight by some punk who didn't want no ticket (Rush Hour; writing credit: Jim Kouf)

You're a punk, a rank amateur, a costumed errand boy taking orders from a senile old man. (Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker; writing credit: Bob Kane; Paul Dini)

I was still a young punk, just starting out. (Rupan sansei: Kariosutoro no shiro; writing credit: Hayao Miyazaki; Monkey Punch)

He was a punk (Sk8er Boi; performing artist: Avril Lavigne)

Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock (We Didn't Start The Fire; performing artist: Billy Joel)

Me be treated like a punk you know that's unheard of (Gangsta's Paradise; performing artist: Coolio)

Frauen liebten seinen Punk (Rock Me Amadeus; performing artist: Falco)

Young punk spilling beer on my shoes, (I Can't Dance; performing artist: Genesis)

25 Years of Punk (2001)

That Darn Punk (2001)

Rage: 20 Years of Punk Rock West Coast Style (2001)

Pickled Punk (1994)

1991: The Year Punk Broke (1992)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Dance of Days: Two Decades of Punk in the Nation's Capital (reference)

• Punk Is A Four-Letter Word (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Punk Planet (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Punk Generation (reference)

• SLC Punk (reference)

• History of Rock 'n' Roll: Punk (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Only When I'm Punk (reference)

• Punk Tribute to Weezer (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Punk was up and dressed for the first time in his life. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Minorities

Russia

According to the Union of Councils for Jews in the Former Soviet Union (UCSJ), which monitors anti-Semitism in the various regions of the country, a punk rock concert held in Tver in March featured a band "Pagan Reign" who screamed anti-Semitic slogans such as "Beat the Yids! Save Russia!" On May 29, the UCSJ released a special report on anti-Semitism in academia, citing prominent professors and university administration officials in the Altay region, Vladimir, Pskov, and St. Petersburg who have expressed anti-Semitic views, either in their publications or in a public forum. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "punk": punk rock ♦ punk rocker. Additional references.

Beginning with "punk": punk-folk, punk-inspired, punk-neutrons, punk-pop, punk-rock, punk-style.

Ending with "punk": post-punk, pre-punk.

Containing "punk": funk-punk-dirge.

Albanian

njeri pa vlerë (dud, snipper-snapper, waster, wastrel), i keq (bad, bad tempered, baleful, blinking, bodeful, cancerous, catty, cheesy, crook, dark, defective, dubious, evil, heavy, ill, ill disposed, ill natured, ill-conditioned, lousy, low-grade, malign, malignant, nasty, naughty, perverse, poor, shady, shoddy, sinister, ugly, vicious, vile, wicked), gjepura (apple sauce, balderdash, baloney, blague, blether, boloney, bosh, bunco, buncombe, bunk, bunko, claptrap, crap, drivel, drool, eyewash, fiddledeedee, fiddle-faddle, fiddlesticks, flam, flannel, flapdoodle, flimflam, flubdub, footle, galimatias, gammon, hog-wash, hokum, humbug, jazz, jiggery pokery, moonshine, nonsense, palaver, piffle, poppycock, rot, rubbish, stuff and nonsense, taradiddle, tosh, trash, twaddle, vacuity, waffle, wish-wash), eshkë (Amadou, tinder, touch wood, Touchwood), dru i kalbur, barut me djegie të ngadaltë. (various references)

Arabic 

‏فاسق (bawdy, debauched, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, don juan, fornicator, immoral, lascivious, lecherous, lewd, libertine, licentious, light, lubricious, miscreant, obscene, philanderer, profligate, raffish, rakish, scab, scarlet, slippery, unchaste, uninhibited, wanton), ‏مفلس (bankrupt, broke, bust, busty, down at heel, hard up, impecunious, insolvent, kaput, penniless, ruined, unowned), ‏مومس (baggage, bawd, bitch, cocotte, courtesan, courtezan, drab, harlot, moll, prostitute, scrubber, slattern, strumpet, tart, trollop, whore), ‏مبتدئ الرهبنة, ‏غلام (boy, chap, child, guy, laddie, man, nipper, shaver), ‏الصوفان (touchwood), ‏بغي (harlot, professional, trollop, wench). (various references)

Bulgarian 

никаквец (cuss, prick), прахан (spunk, tinder), проститутка (doxy, drab, fancy girl, fancy woman, harlot, hooker, night bird, night walker, prostitute, scarlet woman, strumpet, tart, tootsy, tramp, trollop, trot, trull, unfortunate, wench, whore), пък (again), балама (mug, muggins, patsy, pigeon, pushover, sitter), болен (ailing, bad, diseased, ill, invalid, patient, sick, unhealthy, unsound, unwell), болнав (ailing, cachectic, delicate, invalid, pimping, poorly, sickly, unhealthy, unwell, valetudinarian, valetudinary, weakly), приятел на педераст, момче на педераст, ужасно скучен, никакъв (no, none, null, putrid, scabbed, scabby, shabby), негоден (disabled, disqualified, effete, incompetent, ineligible, moth-eaten, no good, outworn, played out, sour, unequal, unfit, unqualified, unsuitable, waste), отвратителен (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, accurst, atrocious, awful, beastly, bestial, carrion, creepy, cursed, damnable, detestable, disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, execrable, foul, fulsome, gruesome, hateful, heinous, hideous, horrible, ill-favored, ill-favoured, infamous, loathsome, lousy, miserable, morbid, nasty, nauseous, noisome, odious, offensive, putrid, rank, repellent, revolting, rotten, septic, shocking, sickening, ugly, unholy, unsavory, unsavoury, unspeakable, villainous, wicked), глупости (all my eye, applesauce, balderdash, baloney, blague, blah, bleat, blether, boloney, bosh, bull, buncombe, cod, crap, drivel, eyewash, fiddle-faddle, fiddlesticks, flapdoodle, footle, fudge, guff, gup, hokum, humbug, jiggery pokery, junk, kibosh, monkey business, monkeybusiness, nonsense, nuts, piffle, poppycock, rhubarb, rot, rubbish, shucks, slush, stuff and nonsense, tack, tommy rot, truck, trumpery), хлапак (loon, shaver, spalpeen, urchin, yob, youngling), хулиган (bully, butch, hood, hoodlum, hooligan, lout, rough, roughneck, rowdy, tearaway, yob), уличница (hussy, hustler, huzzy, quean, streetwalker, tramp, trull), боклук (dirt, dross, dud, fug, garbage, junk heap, litter, mullock, odd-come-shorts, raffle, rubbish, scrap heap, shoddy, spilth, trash, tripe, waste). (various references)

Czech

pankáè. (various references)

Danish

poresvamp (conk), toender (conk, touchwood). (various references)

Dutch

zwam (fungus, mushroom, tinder), tonder (tinder), tonderzwam (tinder), tondel (tinder). (various references)

Esperanto

tindro (tinder). (various references)

Farsi 

چوب پوسیده , جوان ولگرد, اتش زنه (Light, Silex), بی ارزش (Junky, Naught, Nothing, Rubbish, Tripe, Unvalued). (various references)

Finnish

taula (German tinder, touchwood), kääpä (fungus growth). (various references)

French

punk, sale petit voyou, novice, débutant, carpophore dimidié, amadou. (various references)

German

punkrocker, punkrock (punk rock), punker, punk (punk rock), Zunder (hiding, scale oxide, thrashing, tinder), stuss (baloney, codswallop, nonsense, rubbish), schwamm (dry rot, eraser, fungus, mushroom, sponge, swam, tinder, Touchwood), mist (blow, bother, cobblers, crap, droppings, dung, fertilizer, garbage, manure, muck, rats, rubbish, shucks, trash, tripe), der Punk. (various references)

Greek 

κακήσ ποιότητασ μάγκασ, ρεμάλι, σάπιο ξύλο (decayed wood), σαπόξυλο, σαχλόσ (mawkish, namby-pamby, prosy, silly, soppy, vapid), νεαρόσ αλήτησ, πανκ, αγαρικόν,ήσκα (conk, touchwood), δαδί (torch), ίσκα (dead arm). (various references)

Hebrew 

מושחת (corrupt, corruptible, debauchee, naughty, perverse, rotten, sordid, vicious), פאנק, אפנת פאנק, בריון (bully, hoodlum, hooligan, outlaw, plug ugly, rebel, ruffian, tearaway, terrorist, thug). (various references)

Hungarian

vacak dolog (chicken-feed, stinker), vacak (bleeding, cheesy, contemptible, crummy, despicable, dross, flaming, lousy, mangy, measly, moldy, mouldy, number, paltry, pelting, piddling, pokey, potty, ratty, raunchy, rinky-dink, rubbishy, ruddy, schlock, scurvied, shocking, shoddy, tacky, tatty, tinhorn, tin-pot, trash, trashy), punk, pocsék (bum, crummy, damnable, execrable, groaty, grotty, it's an atrocity, lousy), korhadt fa, korhadt (dry-rotten, putrid). (various references)

Indonesian

crossboy (delinquent). (various references)

Italian

punk, legno da esca (conk, touchwood), fungo a mensola (conk). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

パンの木 (breadfruit, bursting, Pan-Americanism, pancake, panchromatic, pansy, punctual, punctuation, puncture, punk rock). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

パンク (bursting, puncture). (various references)

Manx

sponk (tinder, touchwood). (various references)

Pig Latin

unkpay.(various references)

Portuguese

prostituta (bitch, call girl, courtesan, courtezan, drab, draggle-tail, harlot, harridan, hooker, moll, mort, prostitute, streetwalker, strumpet, traipse, trull, unfortunate, walker, wench, whore), podridão seca (conk, dry rot, Moko disease, touchwood), podre (addle, addled, bad, foul, putrid, rotten, stinking, tainted, unsound), sem préstimo (useless), mau (bad, bum, dark, evil, graceless, ill, ill-conditioned, ill-favored, ill-favoured, malignant, mischievous, miserable, nasty, perverse, poor, sinful, two-bit, unjust, unrighteous, venomous, vicious, vile, villainous, wrong), isca (bait, cast, decoy, decoy-duck, lure, spunk, tinder, troll), disparate (absurdity, balderdash, blather, blether, bloomer, bosh, bull, bunk, disparate, fiddle-de-dee, fiddlestick, flapdoodle, flummery, foolery, foolishness, fribble, fudge, guff, gup, hot, howler, moonshine, mush, nonsense, piffle, simplicity, skittle, tomfoolery, tommy rot, tripe, tump, twaddle, unreason, unwisdom), coisa sem valor (chaff, dab, rap), carpóforo dimidiado (conk), agárico dos cirurgiões (conk, touchwood). (various references)

Romanian

iascã (Amadou, spunk, tinder, Touchwood). (various references)

Russian 

панк. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

vrsta roka, trulo drvo (tinder), slab (dickey, dicky, feckless, feeble, flabby, frail, infirm, languid, languorous, low, meager, meagre, nerveless, poor, powerless, remote, short, sickly, slim, tenuous, thin, trick, undernourished, unlikely, washy, weak), siledžija (assailant, bucko, bully, goon, hooligan, plug ugly, rough, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian), rđav (bad, ill, miserable, naught, naughty, rotten, unimprovable, wicked), nezreo mladić (calf). (various references)

Spanish

yesca (tinder). (various references)

Swedish

fnöske (spunk, tinder, touch wood). (various references)

Turkish

punk, pankçı, zırva (balderdash, baloney, bilge, blather, blether, boloney, bosh, bull, bunk, bunkum, eyewash, fiddle, fiddle-de-dee, fiddle-faddle, fiddlesticks, flapdoodle, flimflam, gammon, garbage, gassing, hooey, jabber wocky, nonsense, raving, ravings, rot, rubbish, stuff, tommyrot, twaddle), toy (beardless, callow, chicken, colt, dewy-eyed, green, greenhorn, inapt, inexperienced, naïve, raw, runnynose, tenderfoot, unworldly, verdant), serseri (adrift, beat, bum, bummer, dawdler, dosser, down and out, drifter, errant, flotsam, flotsam and jetsam, gadabout, good for nothing, hobo, hoodlum, hooligan, landloper, larrikin, layabout, lowlife, ne'er do well, ne'er-do-weel, never-do-well, no good, outcast, rambler, rascal, reprobate, rogue, roguish, rounder, rover, runagate, stray, strayed, sundowner, swag man, tramp, vagabond, vagrant, varmint, wandering, yob), saçmalık (absurdity, applesauce, balderdash, bilge, blather, blatherskite, blether, bosh, drivel, extravagance, eyewash, farce, fatuity, fiddle-faddle, flapdoodle, flimflam, flubdub, footle, gab, galimatias, gassing, gibberish, guff, hog-wash, hokum, hooey, inanity, ineptitude, ineptness, insanity, irrationality, lark, malarkey, moonshine, nonsense, piffle, poppycock, rot, rubbish, shenanigan, silliness, spinach, stuff, talkee-talkee, the irrational, trash, triviality, twaddle, vacuity, whimsicality, whimsicalness, wind, wishy-wash), kav (spunk, tinder, Touchwood), kalitesiz (cheap, cheap and nasty, cheap jack, coarse, hand-me-down, inferior, of poor quality, offgrade, ornery, ropy, shoddy, sleazy, third class, third rate), değersiz tip (rip), değersiz (cheap, despicable, footling, inferior, insignificant, jerkwater, measly, milk and water, no-account, nonvalent, non-valent, nugatory, of no worth, paltry, pitiable, rubbishy, shoddy, tinpot, trashy, trivial, trumpery, two bit, valueless, vile, worthless), boş lâf (applesauce, babble, balderdash, bosh, bunkum, comment, empty words, falderal, fiddle, fiddle-de-dee, flimflam, flubdub, flummery, froth, fudge, gab, galimatias, garbage, gas, guff, haver, hokum, hooey, hot air, inanity, jazz, lark, moonshine, palaver, poppycock, routine, small talk, talky-talk, tripe, vaporings, vapourings, waffle, wind, wishy-wash), boş (airy, barren, blank, bootless, captious, chimerical, desert, disengaged, empty, expressionless, fallacious, flat, for hire, free, frivolous, frothy, futile, gaseous, hollow, idle, inane, ineffective, ineffectual, invalid, leisure, meaningless, nugatory, null, pointless, puerile, purposeless, spare, tenantless, thin, trumpery, unbuilt, unbuilt-on, unengaged, unfounded, unoccupied, unprofitable, unrecorded, unwritten-on, vacant, vacuous, vain, void, waste, windy, wishywashy, without any foundation, without foundation, yeasty), acemi (apprentice, beginner, bungler, callow, catechumen, clumsy, colt, cub, dabster, green, greenhorn, guiltless, half-baked, inept, inexperienced, inexperienced hand, inexpert, jackaroo, johnny-come-lately, learner, neophyte, new, novice, Prentice, raw, recruit, runnynose, simple, stooge, strange, stranger, sucking, tenderfoot, tiro, trainee, tyro, unbaked, unfledged, unseasoned, unskilled, untrained, unversed, young, young in one's job), çeteci (brigand, franc-tireur, gangster, guerilla, guerrilla, hooligan), çürük tahta. (various references)

Ukrainian

трухляк, шмаркач (snot, snotter), шпана, гниляк, нікчемність (futility, nonentity, nullity, picayune, shabbiness), нікчемний (contemptible, futile, gewgaw, no-account, not worth a damn, paltry, piffling, riff raff, scrubby, shabby, trifling, unworthy), поганий (bad, bum, cheesy, deplorable, doggerel, ill, inferior, nasty, naught, naughty, objectionable, one horse, rubbishy, shady, sour, third rate, unlovely, weak), дурило (goof). (various references)

Vietnamese 

xấu (baleful, deplorable, evil, ill-favoured, ill-looking, shabby, sorry, ugly, unbeautiful, unpleasant, wicked, wrong), tồi (deplorable, doggerel, foul, illy, poor, poorly, rotten, third-rate, threepenny, trashy, wretched), rác rưởi (dross, filth, raffle, sullage), bỏ đi (cast-off, dud, left-off, overboard). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "punk": punka, punkah, punkahs, punkas, punker, punkers, punkest, punkey, punkeys, punkie, punkier, punkies, punkiest, punkin, punkiness, punkinesses, punkins, punkish, punks, punky. (additional references)

Words ending with "punk": cyberpunk, spunk. (additional references)

Words containing "punk": cyberpunks, spunked, spunkie, spunkier, spunkies, spunkiest, spunkily, spunkiness, spunkinesses, spunking, spunks, spunky. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Punk" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aunk, pank, Penk, penki, phun, Phunky, poink, ponc, ponk, pubn, puek, pugn, Pugni, puk, puki, puko, pulk, punc, punct, pund, pung, puni, punj, punkah, punke, Punkt, punn, punu, punx, Puok, purk, Putnik, puuk, unk, upn, zunk. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: pun.

-2 letters: nu, un, up.

+1 letter: plunk, punka, punks, punky, spunk.

+2 letters: linkup, plunks, puking, punkah, punkas, punker, punkey, punkie, punkin, spunks, spunky, unkept, unpack, unpick, uplink.

+3 letters: bumpkin, duckpin, kingcup, linkups, nutpick, plunked, plunker, pumpkin, punkahs, punkers, punkest, punkeys, punkier, punkies, punkins, punkish, spelunk, spunked, spunkie, sputnik, unkempt, unpacks, unpicks, unspeak, unspoke, uplinks.

+4 letters: bankrupt, bumpkins, chipmunk, duckpins, kerplunk, keypunch, kingcups, nutpicks, penuckle, plucking, plunkers, plunking, pumpkins, punkiest, shunpike, spelunks, spunkier, spunkies, spunkily, spunking, sputniks, turnpike, unpacked, unpacker, unpicked, unpucker, unspeaks, unspoken.