punch

Another Karadeniz cross led to Cudicini's first save of the night, with the Spurs keeper making up for a weak punch by brilliantly pushing away Christian Noboa's snap-shot.

2011 November 3, Chris Bevan, “Rubin Kazan 1 - 0 Tottenham”, in BBC Sport:

(countable) A hit or strike with one's fist.

For in Tashbaan there is only one traffic regulation, which is that everyone who is less important has to get out of the way for everyone who is more important; unless you want a cut from a whip or a punch from the butt end of a spear.

1954, C. S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy:

(countable, rare) A blow from something other than the fist.

The tornado is finally losing its punch.

Nixon inadvertently took most of the punch out of the Red Scare by trekking to Peking and Moscow.

1978 April 22, Harry Seng, “Gore Vidal: Adjutant to the Gay Camp”, in Gay Community News, page 11:

The theorizing often lacks punch and tightness, and that is because Kleinberg is unresolved about how to think about the facts, unsure which are the relevant facts, unsure that thinking itself will be liberating for him.

1981 August 22, Martin Krieger, “Always on the Outside of Whatever Side There Was”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 6, page 9:

en-noun

punch (countable and uncountable, plural punches)

pinch and a punch for the first of the month

From Middle English punchen, partially from Old French ponchonner (“to punch”), from ponchon (“pointed tool”), from Latin punctio, from punctus, perfect passive participle of pungō (“I prick”); and partially from Middle English punchen, a syncopated variant of punischen ("to punish"; see punish). Also influenced by Middle English punchon ("a punch"; see puncheon). Compare also Middle English bunchen, bonchen (“to punch, deliver a blow, pound, beat”).

gloss

"to punish"; see <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">punish</i>

"a punch"; see <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">puncheon</i>


punch

If she punches me, I'm gonna break her nose.

As night watchman he was required to punch a watchman's clock; the stations were scattered all over the place.

1922, William Otis Badger, editor, The Workmen's compensation law journal, volume 10, page 129:

The patrol clock and punch key system made sure that crewmen completed their patrols. At the far end of his patrol, he used a key to punch his clock and start the return trip.

2000, William D. Peterson, United States Life-Saving Service in Michigan, page 106:

Another shipmate remembered the watch clock on the strap we had to carry to punching stations. He was assigned to a guard shack. He had rounds to the Officer's Club and sleeping quarters where he'd have to punch the clock at different stations.

2007, Dick Juge, The Historic Northwest Passage and the CGC Storis, page 27:

(transitive) To operate (a device or system) by depressing a button, key, bar, or pedal, or by similar means.

(transitive) To enter (information) on a device or system.

He punched a hit into shallow left field.

(transitive) To hit (a ball or similar object) with less than full force.

So I punched a hole in the roof, ah-ah, ah-ah
Let the flood carry away all my pictures of you

2014 October 27, Taylor Swift, Imogen Heap, “Clean (Taylor's Version)”, in 1989 (Taylor's Version), performed by Taylor Swift, published 2023 October 27:

(transitive) To make holes in something (rail ticket, leather belt, etc) (see also the verb under Etymology 2).

to punch one with the end of a stick or the elbow

punch above one's weight
punch above one's weight#English

(intransitive, UK, slang) Ellipsis of punch above one's weight; especially, to date somebody more attractive than oneself.

punch above one's weight

(transitive, winemaking) To perform pigeage: to stamp down grape skins that float to the surface during fermentation.

Getting a little tired of you punching that word.

(transitive) To emphasize; to give emphasis to.

en-verb

punch (third-person singular simple present punches, present participle punching, simple past and past participle punched)

punches (present singular third-person)
punching (participle present)
punched (participle past)
punched (past)

grushtoj

to strike something or someone with one's fist

painaa nappia

to operate by pressing a button or similar


punch

(countable) A device, generally slender and round, used for creating holes in thin material, for driving an object through a hole in a containing object, or to stamp or emboss a mark or design on a surface.

(countable) A mechanism for punching holes in paper or other thin material.

(countable) A hole or opening created with a punch.

(piledriving) An extension piece applied to the top of a pile; a dolly.

خَرَّامَة

device for creating holes in thin material

Shortened form of puncheon, from Middle English punchoun, from Old French ponchon (“pointed tool”), from Latin punctio, from punctus, perfect passive participle of pungō (“I prick”).


punch

To employ a punch to create a hole in or stamp or emboss a mark on something.

The guard performs athletic feats in jumping from coach to coach while the train is in motion, taking orders for tickets, punching them on a bell punch in his van, and then returning to distribute them to passengers.

1950 December, R. C. J. Day and R. K. Kirkland, “The Kelvedon & Tollesbury Light Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 842:


punch

A beverage, generally containing a mixture of fruit juice and some other beverage, often alcoholic.

en-noun

punch (usually uncountable, plural punches)

→ Catalan: ponx

→ Esperanto: punĉo

→ Dutch: punch, (obsolete) pons

desctree

→ Japanese: ポン酢 (ponzu)
→ English: ponzu
→ Spanish: ponzu

→ French: punch

→ Galician: ponche

→ German: Punsch
→ Hungarian: puncs
→ Russian: пунш (punš)

→ Irish: puins

→ Italian: punch

→ Japanese: パンチ (panchi)

→ Korean: 펀치 (peonchi)

→ Portuguese: poncha, ponche

→ Spanish: ponche, punch

→ Welsh: pwnsh

PIE word
 *pénkʷe
From Hindi पाँच (pā̃c, “five”)/Urdu پانچ (pānc), because of the drink's original five ingredients (spirits, water, lemon juice, sugar, and spice), from Sanskrit पञ्चन् (páñcan). Doublet of cinque, five, pimp (“five”), ponzu, and sengi (“currency”); related to Pompeii.


punch

(entomology) Any of various riodinid butterflies of the genus Dodona of Asia.