pank

Likely a modification of punk.

pank (plural panks)

1. (slang, derogatory, rare) An irritating or stupid person.
   • 1981, Gerald Casale, Mark Mothersbaugh, Bob Mothersbaugh, “Through Being Cool”, in New Traditionalists, performed by DEVO:

     We're through being cool
     We're through being cool
     Spank the pank who try to drive you nuts

   • 1994 November 30, El Matador, “new user”, in k12.chat.senior‎^[1] (Usenet), retrieved 23 August 2022:

     > my name is vaughan mcdonald and i am in the tenth grade. this is my first time on senior chat and would like for someone to write back to me.
     >
     >
     
     Get out of this Newsgrp you pank. Can't you read is senior chat
     had to be a sophomore.

   • 1998 August 13, Grigori Khaskin, “Arutz 7 again”, in israel.lists.il-board‎^[2] (Usenet), retrieved 23 August 2022:

     What a pank!

   • 2001 September 6, Gary, “low level format”, in alt.certification.network-plus‎^[3] (Usenet), retrieved 23 August 2022:

     What a PANK. Think you could use a little bit more vulgar language for you personal attack here? Thanks, that's real helpful for the Net+ exam......dolt.

   • 2004 October 12, Jim Brown, “And you thought quayle was dum”, in rec.sport.football.college‎^[4] (Usenet), retrieved 23 August 2022:

     Boy, you really nailed it there, you panks.

Origin uncertain. Perhaps related to Swedish panka (“to be exhausted, give out”). Alternatively, perhaps a syncopated variant of panic.

pank (third-person singular simple present panks, present participle panking, simple past and past participle panked)

1. (dated) To breathe hard, pant.
2. (obsolete, of the heart) To pound.

From Swedish bank, although it is also believed to be from Low German bank.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑnk/, [ˈpɑŋkˑ]
• Rhymes: -ɑnk
• Hyphenation: pank

pank (genitive panga, partitive panka)

1. bank (a financial institution that performs various monetary operations and thereby organizes money circulation; the corresponding building)
   • 2014, Tõnu Toompark, Nõuanded koduostjale‎^[5], →ISBN, page 40:

     Ei ole harvad juhud, kus kinnisvaramüüjad ja maaklerid reklaamivad koduostu kui investeeringut. Ka pankade tehtud uuringud kinnitavad, et Eesti inimesed peavad oma kodu kui kinnisvara väga heaks investeeringuks. Järgnevalt uurime, kas kodu ikkagi on investeering.

     It is not uncommon for real estate agents and brokers to promote home buying as an investment. The research done by the banks also confirms that Estonian people consider their home as real estate to be a very good investment. In the following, we examine whether a home is still an investment.

2. (gambling, poker) bank (a financial bet made at the start of a game)

• pank in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
• “pank”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
• “pank”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012

Borrowed from English punk.

pȁnk m inan (Cyrillic spelling па̏нк)

1. (uncountable) punk (music of the punk movement)

pȁnk m inan (Cyrillic spelling па̏нк, nominative plural pànkovi)

1. (colloquial, regional) lathe

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

pank

1. broke (lacking money; bankrupt)
   • 1883, Ernst Wallmark, Swedish translation of Friedrich Zell's libretto to Karl Millöcker's operetta Der Bettelstudent (1882)

     Nu är jag pank och fågelfri

     Ich hab' kein Geld, bin vogelfrei

• luspank
• pankhet

• pank in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• pank in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• pank in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• knap