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▪ I. punchy, a.1|ˈpʌnʃɪ|
[f. punch n.4 + -y.]
Short and stout, thick-set, squat, stumpy.
1783J. Woodforde Diary 10 Feb. (1926) II. 58 He bought..a short dark Punchy Horse with a Hog main. 1791‘G. Gambado’ Ann. Horsem. viii. (1809) 102 If your horse is of the short punchy kind. 1810Sporting Mag. XXXV. 40 The plaintiff being short and punchy. 1823in Spirit Pub. Jrnls. 330 A beautiful punchy little pony.
▪ II. punchy, a.2
see punch n.3
▪ III. punchy, a.3|ˈpʌnʃɪ|
[f. punch n.2 + -y1.]
Full of punch or vigour.
1926Whiteman & McBride Jazz ii. 41, I would direct a punchy number. 1930Observer 19 Oct. 19 A punchy rhetorical speech on Free Trade. 1937Lit. Digest 4 Dec. 30/3 The English language may some day be as colorful and punchy as it was in Elizabethan times. 1959Times Lit. Suppl. 25 Sept. 545/5 (Advt.), In over a score of punchy entertaining chapters he delights readers. 1971Amateur Photographer 3 Mar. 23/2 The 10-minute playlet with a punchy plot. 1977Time 30 May 55/1 More gregarious than Woodcock, a punchier speaker, a hair more liberal, Fraser signals a change in style rather than substance.
▪ IV. ˈpunchy, a.4 slang (chiefly U.S.).
[f. punch n.2 or punch-drunk a. and n. + -y1.]
= punch-drunk a. Hence transf., in a state of nervous tension or extreme fatigue. Also as n. (rare).
1937Lit. Digest 10 Apr. 39/2 ‘Slap-happy’ or ‘punchy’ ex-fighters. 1937E. Hemingway To have & have Not iii. xiv. 201 Shut up, slappy... You've got the old rale... You punchies make me sick. 1943Gen 16 Jan. 30/1 He lives in a dream-world..he is, as the boys put it, ‘punchy’. 1950E. B. White Let. 12 Nov. (1976) 326 K and I are both pretty well, if a bit punchy. 1958E. Dundy Dud Avocado ii. iii. 209, I am so punchy..that I don't know whether I'm coming or going. 1970K. Platt Pushbutton Butterfly (1971) xiii. 149 I'm not coming at you because of what a punchy Hell's Angel tea-head told me. 1974Summerville (S. Carolina) Jrnl. 24 Apr. 2/3 By the time the serviceman inserted a new tube,..the kids were getting punchy from sitting before a gray screen,..trying to imagine just what it was that the Roadrunner was doing to the wily Coyote. 1977Tennis World Sept. 17/2 A player who breaks up on the court from nervousness is said to be ‘punchy’, ‘gone cuckoo’ or simply ‘gone’. |