Punk vs. Pink — What's the Difference?

A loud, fast-moving, and aggressive form of rock music, popular in the late 1970s

Pink is a color that is a pale tint of red and is named after a flower of the same name. It was first used as a color name in the late 17th century.

A worthless person (often used as a general term of abuse)

Of a colour intermediate between red and white, as of coral or salmon

Soft, crumbly wood that has been attacked by fungus, used as tinder.

Having or showing left-wing tendencies

Relating to punk rock and its associated subculture

Of or associated with homosexuals

In poor condition

Pink colour, pigment, or material

Trick or deceive

The best condition or degree

An often aggressive or violent young person

A herbaceous Eurasian plant with sweet-smelling pink or white flowers and slender, typically grey-green leaves.

An inexperienced young person

A small square-rigged sailing ship, typically with a narrow, overhanging stern.

A cowardly or weak young person

A yellowish lake pigment made by combining vegetable colouring matter with a white base.

Punk rock.

Become pink

A punk rocker.

Shear (a sheep) so closely that the colour of the skin is visible

(Slang) A young man who is the sexual partner of an older man, especially in prison.

Cut a scalloped or zigzag edge on

(Archaic) A prostitute.

Decorate

Dry decayed wood, used as tinder.

(of a vehicle engine) make a series of rattling sounds as a result of over-rapid combustion of the fuel–air mixture in the cylinders

Any of various substances that smolder when ignited, used to light fireworks.

Any of a group of colors reddish in hue, of medium to high lightness, and of low to moderate saturation.

Chinese incense.

Any of various plants of the genus Dianthus, such as sweet William, often cultivated for their showy, fragrant, usually pink, red, or white flowers. Also called dianthus.

To act in a cowardly manner. Often used with out.

Any of several other plants in the pink family, such as the wild pink.

To humiliate (someone). Often used with down or out.

A flower of any of these plants.

To dupe or deceive.

The highest or best degree

To play a practical joke on.

Light-colored trousers formerly worn as part of the winter semidress uniform by US Army officers.

Of poor quality; worthless.

The scarlet coat worn by fox hunters.

Weak in spirits or health.

(Slang)A pinko.

(countable) A person used for sex, particularly:

A small sailing vessel with a sharply narrowed stern and an overhanging transom.

Syn of prostitute: a person paid for sex.

Of the color pink.

Syn of catamite: a boy or younger man used by an older as a (usually passive) homosexual partner.

(Slang)Having moderately leftist political opinions.

Syn of bottom: any passive or effeminate homosexual male.

To stab lightly with a pointed weapon; prick.

A boy who accompanies a hobo, especially as used for sex.

To decorate with a perforated pattern.

Syn of faggot: any male homosexual.

To cut with pinking shears.

Syn of bitch: a man forced or coerced into a homosexual relationship, especially in prison.

(regional) The common minnow, Phoxinus phoxinus.

A worthless person, particularly:

(regional) A young Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, before it becomes a smolt; a parr.

Syn of fellow: any person, especially a male comrade.

A narrow boat.

(pejorative) A petty criminal, especially a juvenile delinquent.

(obsolete) A small hole made by puncturing something, as with a rapier, dagger, or pinking iron.

(pejorative) sissy: a weak, timid person.

(obsolete) A small hole or puncture made by a sharp, slender instrument such as a rapier, poniard or dagger, or (by extension) a bullet; a stab.

Syn of amateur.

(obsolete) A small hole or eyelet punched in a garment for decoration, as with a pinking iron; a scallop.

A young, untrained animal or worker.

Any of various flowers in the genus Dianthus, sometimes called carnations.

, a genre known for short, loud, energetic songs with electric guitars and strong drums.

(dated) A perfect example; excellence, perfection; the embodiment of some quality.

(countable) nodot=a, a musician known for playing punk rock or a fan of the genre.

(color) The colour of this flower, between red and white; pale red.

(uncountable) The larger nonconformist social movement associated with punk rock and its fans.

Hunting pink; scarlet, as worn by hunters.

(uncountable) Any material used as tinder for lighting fires, such as agaric, dried wood, or touchwood, but especially wood altered by certain fungi.

(snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, coloured pink, with a value of 6 points.

(countable) A utensil for lighting wicks or fuses (such as those of fireworks) resembling stick incense.

(slang) An unlettered and uncultured, but relatively prosperous, member of the middle classes; compare Babbitt, bourgeoisie.

Worthless, contemptible, particularly

(slang) The vagina or vulva.

Bad, substandard.

(historical) Any of various lake#Etymology 4 pigments or dyes in yellow, yellowish green, or brown shades made with plant coloring and a metallic oxide base.

Thuggish, criminal.

To decorate a piece of clothing or fabric by adding holes or by scalloping the fringe.

Cowardly.

To prick with a sword.

Poorly, sickly.

To wound by irony, criticism, or ridicule.

Inexperienced.

(intransitive) To become pink in color, to redden.

Of or concerning punk rock or its associated subculture.

(transitive) To turn (something) pink.

(slang) To pimp.

(transitive) To turn (a topaz or other gemstone) pink by the application of heat.

To forcibly perform anal sex upon (an unwilling partner).

Of a motor car, to emit a high "pinking" noise, usually as a result of ill-set ignition timing for the fuel used (in a spark ignition engine).

To prank.

Of a musical instrument, to sound a very high-pitched, short note.

(especially with "out") To give up or concede; to act like a wimp.

(obsolete) To wink; to blink.

To adapt or embellish in the style of the punk movement.

Having a colour between red and white; pale red.

Wood so decayed as to be dry, crumbly, and useful for tinder; touchwood.

Of a fox-hunter's jacket: scarlet.

A fungus (Polyporus fomentarius, etc.) sometimes dried for tinder; agaric.

Having conjunctivitis.

An artificial tinder. See Amadou, and Spunk.

(obsolete) By comparison to red (communist), describing someone who sympathizes with the ideals of communism without actually being a Russian-style communist: a pinko.

A prostitute; a strumpet.

(informal) Relating to women or girls.

An aggressive and violent young criminal

(informal) Relating to homosexuals as a group within society.

Substance that smolders when ignited; used to light fuses (especially fireworks)

(obsolete) Half-shut; winking.

Material for starting a fire

A vessel with a very narrow stern; - called also pinky.

A teenager or young adult who is a performer (or enthusiast) of punk rock and a member of the punk youth subculture

A stab.

Rock music with deliberately offensive lyrics expressing anger and social alienation; in part a reaction against progressive rock

A name given to several plants of the caryophyllaceous genus Dianthus, and to their flowers, which are sometimes very fragrant and often double in cultivated varieties. The species are mostly perennial herbs, with opposite linear leaves, and handsome five-petaled flowers with a tubular calyx.

Of very poor quality

A color resulting from the combination of a pure vivid red with more or less white; - so called from the common color of the flower.

Anything supremely excellent; the embodiment or perfection of something.

The European minnow; - so called from the color of its abdomen in summer.

To wink; to blink.

To pierce with small holes; to cut the edge of, as cloth or paper, in small scallops or angles.

To stab; to pierce as with a sword.

To choose; to cull; to pick out.

Half-shut; winking.

Resembling the garden pink in color; of the color called pink (see 6th Pink, 2); as, a pink dress; pink ribbons.

A light shade of red

Any of various flowers of plants of the genus Dianthus cultivated for their fragrant flowers

Make light, repeated taps on a surface;

Sound like a car engine that is firing too early;

Cut in a zig-zag pattern with pinking shears, in sewing

Of a light shade of red