punkah
Americannoun
adjective
Etymology
Origin of punkah
First recorded in 1615–25, punkah is from the Hindi word paṅkhā
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Over his head waved a punkah, drawn by a white-clad woman disciple.
From Time Magazine Archive
The section Punk, for example, lists 43 definitions of that word, and then goes on to define punkah, punkateero and punkatunk.
From Time Magazine Archive
He is on all the first-night lists, Leon at L'Aperitif salutes him as 'Highness,' he is reputed to travel with his own linen sheets, punkah wavers, court chamberlains and sauce cooks .
From Time Magazine Archive
The old clumsy punkah will be replaced by circular fans keeping up a gentle current of air with a minimum of noise or annoyance of any kind.
From Twentieth Century Inventions A Forecast by George Sutherland
A dinner in a delightfully cool, large room, a punkah waving overhead, brilliant lights, joy on all our faces, a dessert fit to set before a king.
From Our Home in the Silver West A Story of Struggle and Adventure by Gordon Stables
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
