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Definition of Punkie
1. Noun. Minute two-winged insect that sucks the blood of mammals and birds and other insects.
Generic synonyms: Gnat
Group relationships: Ceratopogonidae, Family Ceratopogonidae
Definition of Punkie
1. n. A minute biting fly of the genus Ceratopogon or allied genus of the family Chironomidæ, found in swarms in various densely wooded or mountaneous regions.
Definition of Punkie
1. Noun. (American English) a small two-winged fly, of the family ''Ceratopogonidae'', that bites and then sucks the blood of mammals; the biting midge ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Punkie
1. a biting gnat [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Punkie
Literary usage of Punkie
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Letters from the Woods: Editorial Correspondence. Random Rhymes, from 20 to by Edward B Osborne (1898)
"The deer- fly, the mosquito, the midge or punkie, are fresh and fearless as ever.
Some one has said, "Man's love is of himself a thing apart. ..."
2. Camping Out by Warren Hastings Miller (1918)
"Once inside for the night you close and tightly lace the front, and then, with
electric flasher, calmly murder each and every mosquito, black fly, punkie, ..."
3. Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico V. 3/4 by Frederick Webb Hodge (2003)
"Rawson (1675) In Trans. Am. Antiq. Soc., II, 451, 1836. punkie (also ... Funky,
or punkie, is from the Dutch of New York and New Jersey ..."
4. The Insect Book: A Popular Account of the Bees, Wasps, Ants, Grasshoppers by Leland Ossian Howard (1901)
"The so-called " punkie " of the north woods, called " no-see-um " by the Maine
Indians, belongs to this genus, and other species are found from Canada south ..."
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