Punk vs Magic - What's the difference?
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(obsolete, countable) A prostitute; courtezan.
* , V.i.
* 1663 : .
(countable, uncommon) The bottom in a male-male sexual relationship, especially in prison.
* 1946 , Mezz Mezzrow & Bernard Wolfe, Really the Blues , Payback Press 1999, p. 15:
(countable) A juvenile delinquent; a young, petty criminal or trouble-maker; a hoodlum; a hooligan.
(countable) Any worthless person.
* 1971 ,
(uncountable) A social and musical movement rooted in rebelling against the established order.
(uncountable) The music of the punk movement, known for short songs with electric guitars, strong drums, and a direct, unproduced approach.
(countable, sometimes as informal plural punx) A person who belongs to that movement and/or listens to that music, a punk rocker.
Of, from, or resembling the subculture.
To pimp.
To forcibly perform anal sex upon an unwilling partner.
To prank.
To give up or concede; to act like a wimp.
(uncountable) Any material used as tinder for lighting fires, such as agaric, dried wood, or touchwood, but especially wood altered by certain fungi.
* 1899 , H. B. Cushman, History of the Choctaw, Chickasaw and Natchez Indians , page 271:
* 1922 , Harry Ignatius Marshall, The Karen People of Burma , page 61:
* 2001 , William W. Johnstone, War of the Mountain Man , page 116:
(countable) A utensil for lighting wicks or fuses (such as those of fireworks) resembling stick incense.
* 1907 , Jack London, The Road , [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/14658]:
* 1994 , Ashland Price, Viking Tempest , page 353:
* 2004 , Shawn Shiflett, Hidden Place , page 221:
The use of rituals or actions, especially based on supernatural or occult knowledge, to manipulate or obtain information about the natural world, especially when seen as falling outside the realm of religion; also the forces allegedly drawn on for such practices.
*c. 1489 , (William Caxton), Foure Sonnes of Aymon :
*:And whan he shall be arrayed as I telle you / lete hym thenne doo his incantacyons & his magyke as he wyll […].
*1781 , (Edward Gibbon), Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , II.23:
*:The arts of magic and divination were strictly prohibited.
*1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, p. 23:
*:Conversions to the new religion […] have frequently been assisted by the view of converts that they are acquiring not just a means of otherworldly salvation, but a new and more powerful magic .
A specific ritual or procedure associated with supernatural magic or with mysticism; a spell.
Something producing remarkable results, especially when not fully understood; an enchanting quality; exceptional skill.
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, chapter=1 A conjuring trick or illusion performed to give the appearance of supernatural phenomena or powers.
Having supernatural talents, properties or qualities attributed to magic.
Producing extraordinary results, as though through the use of magic; wonderful, amazing.
Pertaining to conjuring tricks or illusions performed for entertainment etc.
(colloquial) Great; excellent.
(physics) Describing the number of nucleons in a particularly stable isotopic nucleus; 2, 8, 20, 28, 50, 82, 126, and 184.
To produce, transform (something), (as if) by magic.
As a noun punk
is punk rock.As a proper noun magic is
the decrypted japanese messages produced by us cryptographers in and prior to world war ii.punk
English
Etymology 1
Of uncertain origin. Possibly from the application of the senseNoun
- My lord, she may be a punk ; for many of them are neither maid, widow, nor wife.
- And made them fight, like mad or drunk,
For Dame Religion, as for punk .
- Because he was so weak, Vinny soon became Tony's punk .
- A punk , if you want it in plain English, is a boy with smooth skin who takes the place of a woman in a jailbird's love life.
- I know what you're thinking, punk'. You're thinking, "Did he fire six shots or only five?" Well, to tell you the truth, I've forgotten myself in all this excitement. But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself a question: Do I feel lucky? / Well, do ya, ' punk ?
Usage notes
The most common use of the term is in the term punk rock (for a certain social and musical movement). In the UK, this is the only common usage.Adjective
(er)- ''You look very punk with your t-shirt, piercing and chains.
Verb
(en verb)- Tony punked-out Vinny when he was low on smokes.
- Ricky punked his new cell-mates.
- I got expelled when I punked the principal.
- Jimmy was going to help me with the prank, but he punked (out) at the last minute.
Usage notes
The relatively tame 21st century usage of punk'' to mean "prank" was popularized by the American television show . Until as recently as the late 20th century, ''punk'' still connoted rape or submitting to anal rape (''punk-out''). The second use of the term ''punk-out'' is now comparable to acting like a ''pussy and mildly implies submissive behavior in general.Synonyms
* seeDerived terms
* cyberpunk * post-punk * protopunk * punk music * punk rock * punkabilly * punker * punkette * punkish * punkling * punkster * punky * ska punkEtymology 2
Perhaps a reduction of Lenape Talking Dictionary'',punkw.Robert K. Barnhart (editor), ''The Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology'' (H. W. Wilson, 1988), page 864: "Probably borrowed from Algonquian (Delaware) ''ponk , literally, living ashes."
Noun
- On one occasion a venerable old Indian man, who, in order to light his pipe, was trying to catch a spark upon a piece of punk struck from his flint and steel; ...
- The oil is mixed with bits of dry wood or punk and moulded into sticks about a cubit long and an inch in diameter by putting it into joints of small bamboo.
- He made him a little smoldering pocket of punk to light the fuses and waited.
- On the end a coal of fire slowly smouldered. It would last for hours, and my cell-mate called it a "punk ."
- Then, without another word, he rose and left the shelter, apparently in order to light the vessel's wick with a punk from the dying campfire.
- He raised the cylinder high in the air with his bare hand, used a punk to light the fuse, and KABOOM !
magic
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Alternative forms
* magick (qualifier) Used as a deliberate archaism; used for supernatural magic, as distinguished from stage magic. * magicke (obsolete) * magique (obsolete)Noun
(en-noun)citation, passage=The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, so that the actual structure which had come down to posterity retained the secret magic of a promise rather than the overpowering splendour of a great architectural achievement.}}
Synonyms
* (allegedly supernatural method to dominate natural forces) dwimmer, thaumaturgy, conjuring, sorcery, witchcraft, dweomercraft/dwimmercraft * (illusion performed to give the appearance of magic or the supernatural) sleight of hand, illusionism, legerdemain, dwimmerAdjective
(-)- a magic''' wand; a '''magic dragon
- a magic moment
- a magic''' show; a '''magic trick
- — I cleaned up the flat while you were out. — Really? Magic !