Punkie Night
English edit
Etymology edit
From punkie (“lantern similar to a jack-o’-lantern”) + night.
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpʌŋki ˌnaɪt/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈpʌŋki ˌnaɪt/, /ˈpəŋ-/
- Hyphenation: Punk‧ie Night
Proper noun edit
- (South West England, chiefly Somerset) A night near the end of October, related to Halloween, observed in parts of South West England by the displaying of punkies (“lanterns similar to jack-o'-lanterns”), and traditionally by children begging for candles for their punkies and threatening people who refuse their requests.
Translations edit
night near the end of October observed in parts of South West England by the displaying of punkies
Further reading edit
- Punkie Night on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “Punkie night, n.” under “punkie, n.2”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, December 2020.
- “Punkie night, n.” under “punkie2, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.