or punquetto, subs. (old).1. A harlot: see TART: also as verb. = to procure. Hence, PUNKER = a wencher; and PUNKISH = meretricious.B. E. (c. 1696); GROSE (1785).
c. 1575. Old Ballad, Old Simon the Kinge [FARMER, Merry Songs and Ballads (1897), iii. 4].
Soe fellowes, if you be drunke, | |
of ffrailtye itt is a sinne, | |
as itt is to keepe a PUNCKE. |
1600. JONSON, Cynthias Revels, ii. 1. Marry, to his cockatrice, or PUNQUETTO, half a dozen taffata gowns or satin kirtles in a pair or two of monthswhy, they are nothing.
1603. SHAKESPEARE, Measure for Measure, v. 1. She may be a PUNK, for many of them are neither maid, widow, nor wife.
1607. DEKKER, Westward Ho! ii. 2. The sewing-man [has] his PUNK, the student his nun in White-Friars. Ibid., iv. 1. Thou hast more tricks in thee than a PUNK has uncles, cousins, brothers, sons or fathers.
1611. CHAPMAN, May-Day, iv. 4. She was some stale PUNK, I warrant her.
1614. JONSON, Bartholomew Faire, ii. 1. Here you may have your PUNK and your pig both in state, sir, piping hot.
162055. Broadside Ballad [Roxburghe Coll. (Brit. Mus.), i. 46, 47].
A woman that will be drunk, | |
will easly play the PUNCK. |
1630. TAYLOR (The Water Poet), Workes, i. 110.
His Pimpship with his PUNKE despight the horne, | |
Eate Gosling giblets in a fort of Corne. |
1632. MASSINGER, The City Madam, ii. 2. Ill wed a pedlars PUNK first.
c. 1650. BRATHWAITE, Drunken Barnabys Journal (1723), II. 50.
Hence to Dunchurch, where report is | |
Of pimps and PUNKS a great resort is. |
d. 1655. T. ADAMS, Works [Nichols Series of Standard Divines, 18612], 28. These PUNKISH outsides beguile the needy traveller.
1670. COTTON, Burlesque upon Burlesque: or, The Scoffer Scofft [Works (1725), 249].
He is a very honest Younker, | |
A bonny Lad, and a great PUNKER. |
1672. WYCHERLEY, Love in a Wood, ii. 1. Are you not a fireship, a PUNK, madam?
1687. CLEVELAND, Works, Against Ale. Among the roaring PUNKS and dammy-boys.
1695. CONGREVE, Love for Love, i. 1. A worn-out PUNK without a whole tatter to her tail.
1697. VANBRUGH, The Provoked Wife, iii. 4. What, a pox! two whores, egad! Have you never a spare PUNK for your friend.
1706. WARD, The Wooden World Dissected, 15. Some snotty-nosed Letter-man, the Product of some quondam PUNK.
1772. BRIDGES, A Burlesque Translation of Homer, 20.
If youre not mad you must be drunk, | |
To drub your genral for a PUNK. |
Verb. (cyclists).2. To puncture a tyre: also, as subs. = a punctured tyre.