"Punkie Night" meaning in English

See Punkie Night in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

IPA: /ˈpʌŋki ˌnaɪt/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈpʌŋki ˌnaɪt/ [General-American], /ˈpəŋ-/ [General-American]
Etymology: From punkie (“lantern similar to a jack-o’-lantern”) + night. Head templates: {{en-proper noun|head=Punkie Night}} Punkie Night
  1. (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. Tags: England, South, West Categories (topical): Festivals Categories (place): Somerset, England
{
  "etymology_text": "From punkie (“lantern similar to a jack-o’-lantern”) + night.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "head": "Punkie Night"
      },
      "expansion": "Punkie Night",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "Punk‧ie"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Somerset English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Festivals",
          "orig": "en:Festivals",
          "parents": [
            "Observances",
            "Calendar",
            "Timekeeping",
            "Time",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Somerset, England",
          "orig": "en:Somerset, England",
          "parents": [
            "England",
            "United Kingdom",
            "British Isles",
            "Europe",
            "Islands",
            "Earth",
            "Eurasia",
            "Places",
            "Nature",
            "Names",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "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."
      ],
      "id": "en-Punkie_Night-en-name-V~ZfZ6gE",
      "links": [
        [
          "night",
          "night#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "end",
          "end#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "October",
          "October"
        ],
        [
          "Halloween",
          "Halloween"
        ],
        [
          "observe",
          "observe"
        ],
        [
          "parts",
          "part#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "displaying",
          "display#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "punkies",
          "punkie#English:_lantern"
        ],
        [
          "lanterns",
          "lantern#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "similar",
          "similar#Adjective"
        ],
        [
          "jack-o'-lantern",
          "jack-o'-lantern"
        ],
        [
          "traditionally",
          "traditionally"
        ],
        [
          "children",
          "child#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "begging",
          "beg#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "candles",
          "candle#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "threaten",
          "threaten"
        ],
        [
          "people",
          "person"
        ],
        [
          "refuse",
          "refuse#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "requests",
          "request#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "chiefly Somerset",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(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."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "England",
        "South",
        "West"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpʌŋki ˌnaɪt/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpʌŋki ˌnaɪt/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpəŋ-/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Punkie Night"
}
{
  "etymology_text": "From punkie (“lantern similar to a jack-o’-lantern”) + night.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "head": "Punkie Night"
      },
      "expansion": "Punkie Night",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "Punk‧ie"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English proper nouns",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Entries with translation boxes",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Somerset English",
        "en:Festivals",
        "en:Somerset, England"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "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."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "night",
          "night#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "end",
          "end#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "October",
          "October"
        ],
        [
          "Halloween",
          "Halloween"
        ],
        [
          "observe",
          "observe"
        ],
        [
          "parts",
          "part#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "displaying",
          "display#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "punkies",
          "punkie#English:_lantern"
        ],
        [
          "lanterns",
          "lantern#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "similar",
          "similar#Adjective"
        ],
        [
          "jack-o'-lantern",
          "jack-o'-lantern"
        ],
        [
          "traditionally",
          "traditionally"
        ],
        [
          "children",
          "child#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "begging",
          "beg#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "candles",
          "candle#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "threaten",
          "threaten"
        ],
        [
          "people",
          "person"
        ],
        [
          "refuse",
          "refuse#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "requests",
          "request#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "chiefly Somerset",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(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."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "England",
        "South",
        "West"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpʌŋki ˌnaɪt/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpʌŋki ˌnaɪt/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpəŋ-/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Punkie Night"
}

Download raw JSONL data for Punkie Night meaning in English (2.0kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.