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Definition of Punkey

1. Noun. Minute two-winged insect that sucks the blood of mammals and birds and other insects.

Definition of Punkey

1. punkie [n -KEYS] - See also: punkie

Lexicographical Neighbors of Punkey

Literary usage of Punkey

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children by Theodore Roosevelt (1919)
"First I would toss punkey Doodle (Quentin) on ... while punkey Doodle squalled and wiggled on top of him, and then reverse them and keep punkey Doodle down ..."

2. Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children by Theodore Roosevelt (1919)
"First I would toss punkey Doodle (Quentin) on ... while punkey Doodle squalled and wiggled on top of him, and then reverse them and keep punkey Doodle down ..."

3. Observations on the Passage to India, Through Egypt: Also by Vienna Through by James Capper (1785)
"... like a Moor punkey*, but the generality of Egyptian boats are inferior to ... a Moor punkey is a long narrow boat to row with tenor twenty oars; ..."

4. The Modern Babes in the Wood: Or, Summerings in the Wilderness by Henry Perry Smith (1872)
"It is thought by some that there must be an instant of time while a punkey is tapping your blood-vessels, when he remains quiet; but we met no one who could ..."

5. A Big Game and Fishing Guide to Northeastern Maine by James Churchward, Bangor and Aroostook Railroad Company (1898)
"... punkey female cane. Second,—Follow each seam in each joint carefully throughout, and see that no ends of fibres show against the seam anywhere, ..."

6. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1880)
"Anoint exposed portions of the person with either .of the above, then stand back and mark the frenzy of the baffled punkey. BEACH-TENT SUPPLIES. ..."

7. Recreation by George O. Shields, American Canoe Association, League of American Sportsmen (1898)
"... punkey dope, a mixture of Stockholm far. pennyroyal and castor oil, the flies ceased to annoy us. We were rather late for the salmon fishing but we ..."

8. The Trapper's Guide and Manual of Instructions for Capturing All Kinds of by Sewell Newhouse, John Humphrey Noyes (1887)
"A small, black gnat, which the old inhabitant! term a " punkey," bears away the palm from the mosquito As these insects are only about one fourth as large ..."

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