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Minute two-winged insect that sucks the blood of mammals and birds and other insects
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punky
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 (context Geology English) Of or pertaining to punk (touchwood) - soft or rotted. 2 Of or pertaining to the punk subculture. n. (alternative spelling of punkie English)
Wikipedia
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Punky is an Irish animated television series created by Lindsay J. Sedgwick and produced by Dublin based Monster Animation and Design. The series features the lead character as having Down Syndrome , with the intention of being the first animated series ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. minute two-winged insect that sucks the blood of mammals and birds and other insects [syn: punkie , punkey , no-see-um , biting midge ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1872, of wood, from punk (n.1) + -y (2). Related: Punkiness .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sand \Sand\, n. [AS. sand; akin to D. zand, G. sand, OHG. sant, Icel. sandr, Dan. & Sw. sand, Gr. ?.] Fine particles of stone, esp. of siliceous stone, but not reduced to dust; comminuted stone in the form of loose grains, which are not coherent when wet. ...
Usage examples of punky.
Devil told his Chief Executive Officer, Punky Wilkenfeld, a large round man with bloodshot eyes and wobbly knees.
Devil looked up, he saw Punky Wilkenfeld climbing out of a two-door Corvette.
With a sigh, Punky reached into his vest pocket and deactivated his digital phone with a brisk little flick.
Devil watched Punky stand, brush himself off, and reach for his snakeskin briefcase.
And Punky, who had belonged to the managerial classes for more eons than he cared to remember, was slow to recognize any instrument used in the performance of manual labor.
The woman takes one of the apples away from her, points out a punky brown spot, substitutes a better apple.
Sad to say, that was where the similarity ended because, unlike Pooh Bear, there was nothing endearing or cuddly about Punky Balog.
I was in my new sunshine yellow Ford Escape, sitting across from Punky s dilapidated row house, and Punky had his huge Pooh butt plastered against his second-story window.
Bobby Forstadt and his punky blond girlfriend were sitting crosslegged on the rocks.
There was furthermore the unfinished space beyond, where one wrong step sent you into unknown territory where the flooring gave way to punky plaster and old lath.
In her punkier days Polly would not have thought twice about receiving guests in a nightie and a plastic mac, but times had changed.
But Laidlaw also presents a kind of flesh-hating antimaterialism more typical of contemporary horror stories: the punky ex-addict Lenore, possessed by the mandalas, is "sickened to think of her own bones trapped and smothered in flesh, except for teeth standing like outcrops of rock, small peaks protruding from a thick red sea.
Kicking frantically, his sandaled feet smashed through a clump of punky purple fungi, shattering the alien basidiocarps and sending thousands of spores shooting prematurely into the damp air.
Ben drew in a dismayed gasp and smelled something hot and punky and wild.
The woman takes one of the apples away from her, points out a punky brown spot, substitutes a better apple.