Prick vs Punk - What's the difference?
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A small hole or perforation, caused by piercing.
An indentation or small mark made with a pointed object.
(obsolete) A dot or other diacritical mark used in writing; a point.
(obsolete) A tiny particle; a small amount of something; a jot.
A small pointed object.
* Shakespeare
* Bible, Acts ix. 5
The experience or feeling of being pierced or punctured by a small, sharp object.
* A. Tucker
(slang, vulgar) The penis.
(slang, pejorative) Someone (especially a man or boy) who is unpleasant, rude or annoying.
(now, historical) A small roll of yarn or tobacco.
The footprint of a hare.
(obsolete) A point or mark on the dial, noting the hour.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) The point on a target at which an archer aims; the mark; the pin.
* Spenser
To pierce or puncture slightly.
To form by piercing or puncturing.
(dated) To be punctured; to suffer or feel a sharp pain, as by puncture.
To incite, stimulate, goad.
* (rfdate), (Shakespeare), (Two Gentlemen of Verona) , ii. 7.
To affect with sharp pain; to sting, as with remorse.
* Bible, Acts ii. 37
* Tennyson
(archaic) To urge one's horse on; to ride quickly.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , III.1:
* 1881 , :
(transitive, chiefly, nautical) To mark the surface of (something) with pricks or dots; especially, to trace a ship’s course on (a chart).
(nautical, obsolete) To run a middle seam through the cloth of a sail. (The Universal Dictionary of the English Language, 1896)
To make acidic or pungent.
To become sharp or acid; to turn sour, as wine.
To aim at a point or mark.
To fix by the point; to attach or hang by puncturing.
* Sandys
(obsolete) To mark or denote by a puncture; to designate by pricking; to choose; to mark.
* Francis Bacon
* Sir Walter Scott
* Shakespeare
To make sharp; to erect into a point; to raise, as something pointed; said especially of the ears of an animal, such as a horse or dog; and usually followed by up .
* Dryden
(obsolete) To dress; to prink; usually with up .
(farriery) To drive a nail into (a horse's foot), so as to cause lameness.
(Webster 1913)
(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:
English words with different meanings in different locations
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As nouns the difference between prick and punk
is that prick is a small hole or perforation, caused by piercing while punk is a prostitute; courtezan.As verbs the difference between prick and punk
is that prick is to pierce or puncture slightly while punk is to pimp.As an adjective punk is
of, from, or resembling the punk subculture.prick
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) prik, prikke, from (etyl) prica, . Pejorative context came from prickers, or witch-hunters.Noun
(en noun)- Pins, wooden pricks , nails, sprigs of rosemary.
- It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks .
- I felt a sharp prick as the nurse took a sample of blood.
- the pricks of conscience
- the prick of noon
- they that shooten nearest the prick
Derived terms
* pricker * prickle * prickly * pricktease * prickteaserEtymology 2
From (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- John hardly felt the needle prick his arm when the adept nurse drew blood.
- to prick holes in paper
- to prick a pattern for embroidery
- to prick the notes of a musical composition
- (Cowper)
- A sore finger pricks .
- My duty pricks me on to utter that.
- Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart.
- I was pricked with some reproof.
- (Milton)
- At last, as through an open plaine they yode, / They spide a knight that towards them pricked fayre [...].
- Indeed, it is a memorable subject for consideration, with what unconcern and gaiety mankind pricks on along the Valley of the Shadow of Death.
- (Hudibras)
- (Hawkins)
- to prick a knife into a board
- The cooks prick it [a slice] on a prong of iron.
- (Isaac Newton)
- Some who are pricked for sheriffs.
- Let the soldiers for duty be carefully pricked off.
- Those many, then, shall die: their names are pricked .
- The courser pricks up his ears.
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 !