punker
Pluralpunkers
- 1A musician known for playing punk rock, or a fan of that kind of music.
Some old punker in a studded jacket kept shouting requests for songs from 1979.
And famous punker Joe Strummer figures prominently in Mercury's life.
1988, Diana Spinrad, “Burnin' With the 8 Ball”Similarpunk
Note
Punk plus -er gives a longer name for the same person. Lou Sullivan's diary of 1977–1980 has hippie bikers eyeing up the punkers, and the Chicago Reader in 1988 calls Joe Strummer a famous punker. The word is slang that now sounds dated, and plain punk is the safer choice for a fan or a musician today.
- 2Archaic form of punkah.
Note
Behind the spelling is a word from South Asia and Myanmar for a large fan of cloth or leaf, hung from the ceiling and worked by a servant. Punkah is what modern writing uses; this form reads as a period touch today. It is unrelated to the punk-rock word, a separate noun that merely shares the spelling.
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Origin
Formed from punk and the suffix -er.