2. Adjective. Slightly punk. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Punkish
1. pertaining to a style inspired by punk rock [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Punkish
Literary usage of Punkish
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1902)
"... and punkish = meretricious.—BE ((-.1696) ; GROSE (1785). C.I575. ... These punkish
outsider beguile the needy traveller. 1670. ..."
2. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1872)
"F. The purse serves for an art ; but if I should briefly tell thee, what punkish
art derived from her progenitors this ..."
3. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1872)
"F. The purse serves for nn art ; but if 1 should briefly tell thee, what punkish
art derived from her progenitors this ..."
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