Definitions
Etymologies
- From Jingpho (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Vietnam where I was wounded, but how I was wounded was running across a rice paddy I fell into -- what's called a punji trap, Willich said.”
“In that instance, someone left a crude device known as a punji trap on the front porch of the detective's home.”
“The first attack came in early December, when someone left a crude device known as a punji trap at the officer's home.”
“January 20th, 2010 at 6: 23 pm dbadass says: can build a punji trap.”
“F ukc off you dumb a$$ socialist lib, you want a punji stick in the eye?”
“January 22nd, 2010 at 4: 06 pm dbadass says: you want a punji stick in the eye? —”
“Dig pit (Note - ask if we need punji sticks to go with pit).”
“Seek help, or better yet, build yourself a punji trap and fall in please.”
Think Progress » O’Reilly: It’s so awful when people intrude on your vacation with their cameras.
“He stepped on a punji stake, a dung-poisoned bamboo spear that had been buried in the ground.”
“Obama is a very smart guy - a genuine intellectual - who has jumped through a rare political window of opportunity, but there's a punji-pit on the other side.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘punji’.
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scrabble j q x z 4 and 5 letter words
revising for a competition 30 games
in 24 hours
5-Letter words with J, X, Q or Z
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ADDAX ADMIX AFFIX ANNEX ATAXY AUXIN AXELS AXIAL AXILE AXILS A...azan, azon, boxy, brux, buzz, calx, chez, coax, coxa, cozy, crux, czar and 152 more...
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Professional Scrabble Lexicon (TWL)
A myriad of game-changing words every Scrabble addict must have in his arsenal.
Keep in mind that these are all tried-and-true feasibly playable words selected for their handiness, i.e...paragon, pignora, ganef, suttee, origan, ohia, aioli, abasement, lehr, mho, tallow, harelike and 842 more...
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looked up
Words I've come across while reading and looked up in the dictionary.
deesis, pendentive, revetment, aedicule, stemma, patera, ephod, entrepot, corbel, exedra, volute, archivolt and 1406 more...
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Hana's Vocab
ipseism, jape, raphe, mullions and tran..., Olbers' Paradox, Euclidian torus, relativity of sim..., Cerenkov radiation, tachyon, superluminal, hapax legomenon, damascene and 314 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for punji.
knitandpurl "The speed and power of their growth is alarming, the forms they adopt as bizarre and varied as those of deep-sea organisms, and all of them, he supposes, are as dangerous to an airplane as punji stakes to a barefoot pedestrian."
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson, p 30 of the Avon Books paperback edition Jan 22, 2013