pank
See also: Pank
English
Etymology
Likely a modification of punk.
Noun
pank (plural panks)
- (slang, derogatory, rare) An irritating or stupid person.
- 1981, Gerald Casale; Mark Mothersbaugh; Bob Mothersbaugh (lyrics and music), “Through Being Cool”, in New Traditionalists, performed by DEVO:
- We're through being cool
We're through being cool
Spank the pank who try to drive you nuts
- 1994 November 30, El Matador, “new user”, in k12.chat.senior, Usenet, retrieved 2022-08-23:
- > my name is vaughan mcdonald and i am in the tenth grade. this is my first time on senior chat and would like for someone to write back to me.
>
>
Get out of this Newsgrp you pank. Can't you read is senior chat
had to be a sophomore.
- 1998 August 13, Grigori Khaskin, “Arutz 7 again”, in israel.lists.il-board, Usenet, retrieved 2022-08-23:
- What a pank!
- 2001 September 6, Gary, “low level format”, in alt.certification.network-plus, Usenet, retrieved 2022-08-23:
- What a PANK. Think you could use a little bit more vulgar language for you personal attack here? Thanks, that's real helpful for the Net+ exam......dolt.
- 2004 October 12, Jim Brown, “And you thought quayle was dum”, in rec.sport.football.college, Usenet, retrieved 2022-08-23:
- Boy, you really nailed it there, you panks.
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Estonian
Etymology
Borrowed from German Bank, itself borrowed from Italian banco.
Noun
pank (genitive panga, partitive panka)
- bank (financial institution)
Declension
Declension of pank (type leib)
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | pank | pangad |
| genitive | panga | pankade |
| partitive | panka | panku / pankasid |
| illative | panka / pangasse | pankadesse / pangusse |
| inessive | pangas | pankades |
| elative | pangast | pankadest |
| allative | pangale | pankadele |
| adessive | pangal | pankadel |
| ablative | pangalt | pankadelt |
| translative | pangaks | pankadeks |
| terminative | pangani | pankadeni |
| essive | pangana | pankadena |
| abessive | pangata | pankadeta |
| comitative | pangaga | pankadega |
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From English punk.
Noun
pank m (Cyrillic spelling панк)
- punk (music of the punk movement)
Swedish
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Adjective
pank
- broke (lacking money; bankrupt)
- 1883, Ernst Wallmark, Swedish translation of Friedrich Zell's libretto to Karl Millöcker's operetta Der Bettelstudent (1882)
- Nu är jag pank och fågelfri
- Ich hab' kein Geld, bin vogelfrei
- Nu är jag pank och fågelfri
- 1883, Ernst Wallmark, Swedish translation of Friedrich Zell's libretto to Karl Millöcker's operetta Der Bettelstudent (1882)
Declension
| Inflection of pank | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
| Common singular | pank | — | — |
| Neuter singular | pankt | — | — |
| Plural | panka | — | — |
| Masculine plural3 | panke | — | — |
| Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
| Masculine singular1 | panke | — | — |
| All | panka | — | — |
| 1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. 3) Dated or archaic | |||
Derived terms
- luspank
- pankhet
Anagrams
- knap
Westrobothnian
Etymology
From Middle Low German pak, from Proto-Germanic *pakkô (“bundle, pack,”) whence also English pack.
Noun
pank n
- miscellaneous things
Verb
pank (preterite pankä)
- put together, pack together one’s stuff