Wing vs Punk - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between wing and punk

is that wing is an appendage of an animal's (bird, bat, insect) body that enables it to fly while punk is punk rock.

As a verb wing

is (lb) to injure slightly (as with a gunshot), especially in the arm.

wing

English

(wikipedia)

Alternative forms

* whing (obsolete) * weng (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)

An appendage of an animal's (bird, bat, insect) body that enables it to fly.

(slang) Human arm.

Part of an airplane that produces the lift for rising into the air.

One of the large pectoral fins of a flying fish.

One of the broad, thin, anterior lobes of the foot of a pteropod, used as an organ in swimming.

(botany) Any membranaceous expansion, such as that along the sides of certain stems, or of a fruit of the kind called samara.

(botany) Either of the two side petals of a papilionaceous flower.

A side shoot of a tree or plant; a branch growing up by the side of another.

Passage by flying; flight.

to take wing

* Shakespeare

Light thickens; and the crow / Makes wing to the rooky wood.

Motive or instrument of flight; means of flight or of rapid motion.

* Shakespeare

Fiery expedition be my wing .

A part of something that is lesser in size than the main body, such as an extension from the main building.

Anything that agitates the air as a wing does, or is put in winglike motion by the action of the air, such as a fan or vane for winnowing grain, the vane or sail of a windmill, etc.

An ornament worn on the shoulder; a small epaulet or shoulder knot.

A fraction of a political movement. Usually implies a position apart from the mainstream center position.

An organizational grouping in a military aviation service:

# (British) A unit of command consisting of two or more squadrons and itself being a sub-unit of a group or station.

# (US) A larger formation of two or more groups, which in turn control two or more squadrons.

(British) A panel of a car which encloses the wheel area, especially the front wheels.

(nautical) A platform on either side of the bridge of a vessel, normally found in pairs.

(nautical) That part of the hold or orlop of a vessel which is nearest the sides. In a fleet, one of the extremities when the ships are drawn up in line, or when forming the two sides of a triangle.

(Totten)

(sports) A position in several field games on either side of the field.

(sports) A player occupying such a position, also called a winger

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(botany) A flattened extension of a tridimensional plant organ.

(typography, informal, rare) =

* 1985 , David Grambs, Literary Companion Dictionary , page 378

? wing , wedge, h?cek, inverted circumflex (Karel ?apek )

One of the sides of the stage in a theatre.

Synonyms

* (panel of a car) fender (US), guard (Australia) * (sports position) forward

Derived terms

* left wing * on the wing * redwing * right wing * take under one's wing * wingman * wing it * winged * winger

Verb

(en verb)

(lb) To injure slightly (as with a gunshot), especially in the arm.

(lb) To fly.

*:Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.

To add a wing (extra part) to.

(lb) To act or speak extemporaneously; to improvise; to wing it.

(lb) To throw.

punk

English

Etymology 1

Of uncertain origin. Possibly from the application of the sense

Noun

(obsolete, countable) A prostitute; courtezan.

* , V.i.

My lord, she may be a punk ; for many of them are neither maid, widow, nor wife.

* 1663 : .

And made them fight, like mad or drunk,
For Dame Religion, as for punk .

(countable, uncommon) The bottom in a male-male sexual relationship, especially in prison.

Because he was so weak, Vinny soon became Tony's punk .

* 1946 , Mezz Mezzrow & Bernard Wolfe, Really the Blues , Payback Press 1999, p. 15:

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.

(countable) A juvenile delinquent; a young, petty criminal or trouble-maker; a hoodlum; a hooligan.

(countable) Any worthless person.

* 1971 ,

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 ?

(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.

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)

Of, from, or resembling the subculture.

''You look very punk with your t-shirt, piercing and chains.

Verb

(en verb)

To pimp.

Tony punked-out Vinny when he was low on smokes.

To forcibly perform anal sex upon an unwilling partner.

Ricky punked his new cell-mates.

To prank.

I got expelled when I punked the principal.

To give up or concede; to act like a wimp.

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

* see

Derived terms

* cyberpunk * post-punk * protopunk * punk music * punk rock * punkabilly * punker * punkette * punkish * punkling * punkster * punky * ska punk

Etymology 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

(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:

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; ...

* 1922 , Harry Ignatius Marshall, The Karen People of Burma , page 61:

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.

* 2001 , William W. Johnstone, War of the Mountain Man , page 116:

He made him a little smoldering pocket of punk to light the fuses and waited.

(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]:

On the end a coal of fire slowly smouldered. It would last for hours, and my cell-mate called it a "punk ."

* 1994 , Ashland Price, Viking Tempest , page 353:

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.

* 2004 , Shawn Shiflett, Hidden Place , page 221:

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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