punese
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From French punaise, from punais (“stinking”), from Latin putere.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
punese (plural puneses)
- (obsolete, rare) A bedbug.
- 1662, [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge: University Press, 1905, →OCLC:
- His Flea, his Morpion, and Punese,
He 'ad gotten for his proper Ease
References[edit]
“punese”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.