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Punier vs Punker - What's the difference?

punier | punker |

As an adjective punier

is (puny).

As a noun punker is

punk (person, follower of the punk movement).

punier

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (puny)

    • Anagrams

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    puny

    English

    Noun

    (punies)
  • (obsolete) A new pupil at a school etc.; a junior student.
  • (obsolete) A younger person.
  • *, II.12:
    • a law that the eldest or first borne child shall succeed and inherit all: where nothing at all is reserved for Punies , but obedience.
  • (obsolete) A beginner, a novice.
    • (Fuller)
  • (archaic) An inferior person; a subordinate.

    • Adjective

    (er)
  • Of inferior size, strength or significance.
  • * Shakespeare
    • A puny subject strikes at thy great glory.
  • * Keble
    • Breezes laugh to scorn our puny speed.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    See also

    * punny – relating to a pun ----

    punker

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (music, dated) A punk rocker: a performer or enthusiast of punk rock.
  • * 1988 July 29, Diana Spinrad, "Burnin' With the 8 Ball", :
    • And famous punker Joe Strummer figures prominently in Mercury's life.
  • * 2006 , John De Herrera, The Kingsnake in the Sun (page 72)
    • She was a crack-up, she thought she was such a punker . She always had some punk group on her headset.
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