Punk vs Whale - What's the difference?
punk | whale |
(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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Any of several species of large sea mammals of the order Cetacea.
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, title= (figuratively) Something, or someone, that is very large.
* 1920 September, “A Reformed Free Lance” (pseudonym), “Doctoring a Sick Encyclopedia”, in The Writer , Volume XXXII, Number 9,
* 1947 May 19, John Chamberlain, “Will Clayton and his Problem”, in ,
(gambling) (In a casino) a person who routinely bets at the maximum limit allowable.
* 2003 , Jeff Wuorio, How to Buy and Sell (Just About) Everything ,
* 2004 , Norm Clarke, Vegas Confidential: Norm! Sin City's Ace Insider 1,000 Naked Truths, Hot Spots and Cool Stuff ,
* 2008', Deke Castleman, '''''Whale Hunt in the Desert ,
To hunt for whales.
To flog, to beat.
As nouns the difference between punk and whale
is that punk is punk rock while whale is any of several species of large sea mammals of the order cetacea.As a verb whale is
to hunt for whales.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 !
References
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English
(wikipedia whale) (Cetacea)Noun
(en noun)Yesterday’s fuel, passage=The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania.
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- It was a whale of a job. It took two months, and the fair blush of youth off my cheeks.
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- But when it comes to his business life and business career, is not as other men; he is such a whale of a lot better that it suggests a qualitative as well as a quantitative difference.
- These are often no-limit games as maximum bets cramp a whale ’s style.
- A handful of the richest whales routinely play for $200,000 a hand. Australian media mogul Kerry Packer not only regularly bets that much, but has plunked down $200,000 bets for the dealer as a form of a tip.
- The high roller who had the most ferocious reputation for trying to run the business of the casinos where he played, before he died on December 26, 2006, was Kerry Packer. In the casino world, Packer was the Prince of Whales .
