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" If you look a little punkish, then they're going to give you the parts. And if you play an iconic villain early on in your career, you tend to get asked to play one over and over and over again."
Malcolm McDowell

Meaning of "punkish" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF PUNKISH

ˈpʌŋkɪʃ


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PUNKISH

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Punkish is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES PUNKISH MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of punkish in the English dictionary

The definition of punkish in the dictionary is relating to or reminiscent of a youth movement of the late 1970s, characterized by anti-Establishment slogans and outrageous clothes and hairstyles.



WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PUNKISH

blackish · bookish · brackish · cliquish · crankish · dankish · darkish · folkish · Frankish · freakish · hawkish · kish · mawkish · monkish · peckish · pinkish · prankish · puckish · rankish · Turkish

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PUNKISH

punji · punk · punk rock · punk rocker · punka · punkah · punker · punkey · punky · punned · punner · punnet · punning · punningly · punny · punster · punt

WORDS THAT END LIKE PUNKISH

bleakish · blockish · briskish · buckish · clerkish · cockish · duskish · hickish · lakish · larkish · luskish · parkish · quackish · rookish · sickish · sneakish · stockish · textbookish · thickish · weakish

Synonyms and antonyms of punkish in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «punkish» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF PUNKISH

Find out the translation of punkish to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of punkish from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «punkish» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

朋克
1,325 millions of speakers
es

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punkish
570 millions of speakers
en

English

punkish
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

punkish
380 millions of speakers
ar

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punkish
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

хулиганское
278 millions of speakers
pt

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punkish
270 millions of speakers
bn

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punkish
260 millions of speakers
fr

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punk
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Punkish
190 millions of speakers
de

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punkish
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

パンキッシュ
130 millions of speakers
ko

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punkish
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Punkish
85 millions of speakers
vi

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punkish
80 millions of speakers
ta

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punkish
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

पंकिश
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

punk
70 millions of speakers
it

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punkish
65 millions of speakers
pl

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punkish
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

хуліганський
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

punkish
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πανκ
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

punkish
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

punkish
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Punkish
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of punkish

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PUNKISH»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about punkish

EXAMPLES

QUOTES WITH «PUNKISH»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word punkish.
1
Malcolm McDowell
If you look a little punkish, then they're going to give you the parts. And if you play an iconic villain early on in your career, you tend to get asked to play one over and over and over again.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PUNKISH»

Discover the use of punkish in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to punkish and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Pretty in Punk: Girls' Gender Resistance in a Boys' Subculture
I got in, it was more New Wave than, there was a little punkish crowd in there and then I got into the skinheads and played with them for a little while and then I moved out of that about two, two and a half years ago, 1 got back into punk. Started ...
Lauraine Leblanc, 1999
2
Dandy in the Underworld
This insane tale of the prototype of modern day dandyism has now found its spiritual platform in the heart of the crazy village he likes to call home. Dandy In The Underworld premiered at Soho Theatre in the summer of 2010.
Tim Fountain, Sebastian Horsley, 2010
3
Road Atlas to Love
Mina a. a.. "For this duck here, barley wine please/' I cried out very loud. "Oh, a very good choice," the punkish-rockish guy (whom I met a couple of hours earlier) appeared, again just from nowhere, and took a seat next to me. Nobody minded.
A. a. Mina a. a., 2008
4
Young Writer in New Orleans, 1996: Six Short Stories
Pale, casually punkish. But sexy still. A screenwriter. Small, independent films only. No doubt her work, her writing, is also a bit punkish. But a house in the French Quarter nevertheless, witha nice littlecourtyard.Far far more thanhe has.
Tad Hogan, 2011
5
Living Through Pop
What was significant about the Velvets was the simple fact that they had – unlike almost any other band you could think of – probably been a fixture of every punkish or post-punkish person's record, poster and Tshirt collection for at least ten ...
Andrew Blake, 2002
6
Advances in Bladder Research
A: We can only do females because we can't catheterize the males, and about 10 to 15% of our animals do not do well secondary to acute obstruction after we do the surgery. They just look punkish, and so we euthanize them. Q: Well, if they're  ...
Laurence S. Baskin, Simon W. Hayward, 1999
7
One Hundred and One Albums that Changed Popular Music
Few punkish acts have managed to have their cake and Nirvana's 1991 breakthrough Nevermind, eat it to—Patti Smith, the Sex Pistols, Sonic Youth, the Pix- ies, Jane's Addiction—and which served as the tipping point for the grunge music ...
Chris Smith, 2009
8
American Popular Music: The age of rock
Punkish elements increased in 1978; but to hit most college listeners, even commercial power pop needs mellow mixed in. Your Queen and Heart can be heavy one cut, soft and pretty the next. You've got to be mellow, biggest new campus ...
Timothy E. Scheurer, 1989
9
McZoot's Travels: A Journey to Zora Gora
If it was his intention to piss off us normal folks with his body art then he was tremendously successful, more so than any example of punkish cravenness I had seen in the past three punkish and craven decades. I was angered and sickened by ...
Athanasius Blalock, 2006
10
Music USA: The Rough Guide
Over the course of the first half of the 1980s, the band sanded off the purely punkish elements of their style to let their more song-oriented, rootsy influences come to the forefront. Their fanatical appreciation in the American underground led ...
Richie Unterberger, Samb Hicks, Jennifer Dempsey, 1999

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PUNKISH»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term punkish is used in the context of the following news items.
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The New Couturiers: Aouadi's Punkish Femmes
Given his gentle demeanor, you would never guess that Yacine Aouadi (pronounced “ow-a-dee”), the Marseilles-born designer of Algerian origin, hails from one ... «Style.com, Jul 15»
2
First Listen: White Reaper, 'White Reaper Does It Again'
White Reaper Does It Again extends the freewheeling Louisville rock band's breakneck punkish pop across 12 songs, beyond the scope and attack of White ... «WPSU, Jul 15»
3
Lee Roach Men's RTW Spring 2016
Lee Roach, a graduate of London's Central Saint Martins, logged time working at both the punkish Meadham Kirchhoff label and Savile Row tailor Kilgour before ... «WWD, Jun 15»
4
Joan Smalls Takes Classic Cat Eyes for a Punkish Spin
Joan Smalls may channel festival babe with the best of them, but it takes a special kind of styling dexterity to inject a preppy look with distinctive downtown cool. «Vogue.com, Jun 15»
5
Paris Jackson Returns to Twitter, Shows Off Punkish New Look and …
Paris Jackson, Michael Jackson's 17-year-old daughter, is back on Twitter and she's sporting a punk-inspired look and a man who matches it. The King of Pop's ... «VH1, May 15»
6
TV Review: No Offence; Penny Dreadful
I think “none taken” is my response to No Offence, Paul Abbott's punkish reworking of Scott & Bailey. Sally Wainwright's police procedural humanises its ... «The Times, May 15»
7
The Cribs review – like setting off a firework in a tin can
The Jarman brothers – wiry vocal-swapping twins Ryan and Gary on guitar and bass with younger brother Ross on drums – messily assault their punkish indie ... «The Guardian, Feb 15»
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Carrie Brownstein bounces between 'Portlandia' and punk rock
With one foot in punkish indie rock and the other in off-kilter comedy, Carrie Brownstein has always considered herself an artist operating outside the ... «Los Angeles Times, Jan 15»
9
Nasdaq Composite snaps longest win streak since April
"The Black Friday retail sales looked a little punkish," said Mark Luschini, chief investment strategist at Janney Montgomery Scott. The fall in Apple's shares "may ... «CNBC, Dec 14»
10
First Look: Sonam Kapoor is a Sporty Bride in Dolly Ki Doli
Bollywood fashion diva Sonam Kapoor strikes a perfect balance between her stylista image and a punkish attitude in the first look of her upcoming romantic ... «NDTV, Nov 14»
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