[kj] ot - the first punk

[Jim Harper]

In Europe at the time of the Second World War, 'punk' was used by some writers as an adjective, generally meaning 'cowardly'. Curious how the meanings of words change.
 
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--- On Thu, 24/7/08, iPat <pmdavies at gmail.com> wrote:

From: iPat <pmdavies at gmail.com>
Subject: [kj] ot - the first punk
To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)" <gathering at misera.net>
Date: Thursday, 24 July, 2008, 11:46 AM

In Christopher Hibbert's "Roundheads and Cavaliers", a gentleman
in it
refers in his diary to "punks" which Hibbert annotates as
"whores". Is
this the origin of the word, or does it go back to before the English
Civil War ? 1640's. The colonies were founded after 1607, so
theoretically it doesnt disclaim the word origionating in the US,
although they were speaking our language then.

-- 
iPat
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