Usually means: Tiny biting fly; causes irritation.
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  1. punkie: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. punkie: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. punkie: Vocabulary.com
  4. punkie: Wordnik
  5. punkie: Wiktionary
  6. punkie: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. punkie: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Punkie, punkie: Dictionary.com
  9. Punkie (disambiguation), Punkie: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. punkie: Rhymezone
  11. punkie: Free Dictionary
  12. punkie: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. punkie: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. punkie: Encyclopedia

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  1. punkie: Medical dictionary

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  1. punkie: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (punkie)

noun:  (chiefly New England) A small two-winged fly or midge of the family Ceratopogonidae, which bites and then sucks the blood of mammals; a biting midge or sandfly.
noun:  (South West England, chiefly Somerset) In full punkie lantern: a lantern similar to a jack-o'-lantern consisting of a gourd such as a pumpkin or a root vegetable such as a mangelwurzel or swede which has been hollowed out, in which a candle has been placed; these are chiefly displayed during Punkie Night in late October.
noun:  (US) Synonym of pumpkinseed (“a North American sunfish, Lepomis gibbosus”).

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