Citations:punk

Noun: prostitute

 * 1607, George Wilkins, The Miseries of Inforst Mariage
 * "en"

- Your father was my good Benefactor and gave me a house whilst I liue to put my head in: for I would be loth then to see his onely daughter, for want of meanes, turne punk, I have a drift to keepe you honest.


 * 1660, James Howell, Lexicon Tetraglotton, an English-French-Italian-Spanish Dictionary page 77
 * "en"

- Buy not a lame Mule, nor marry a Punk in hope to cure either. This proverb is glossed in Spanish: Ni compres mula coxa, ni cases puta pensando de curarlas.


 * 1673, Thomas Shadwell, Epsom-Well, a Comedy, acted at the Duke's Theatre page 68
 * "en"

- Nay, your Mistress, forsooth, has turn'd from Bawd to Punk, from Punk to Bawd, as often as they say Thames Water will stink and grow sweet again at Sea.

Noun: tinder

 * 1678, Thomas Duffett, Psyche Debauch'd, a Comedy: As it was Acted at the Theatre-Royal:
 * "en"

- When a house is on fire, the Lame, Sickly, and Lazy, frisk as if they had a swarm of Hornets about them. Green sickness Girle can lift huge trunck, But Blade with Loves flame scorch'd and shrunk; Will do much more for charming Punk.


 * 2008, Nonglak Rojanasaeng, Problems and prospects of adaptive co-management of fishery and coastal resources in Southern Thailand, page 152:
 * "en"

- Their major earnings came from making and selling punk. (a footnote then defines 'punk' as:) an oily liquid extracted from a particular tree species used for tinder, usually mixed with solid substance to form sticks before use