punji

English

Etymology

From Jingpho [Term?].

Noun

punji (plural punjis)

  1. A sharpened stick, often made of bamboo and covered in feces or other biohazardous material, set in the ground to wound or impale enemy soldiers.
    • 2013, Gordon L. Rottman, World War II Allied Sabotage Devices and Booby Traps, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 19:
      Ordinary punjis will penetrate thick uniforms or the upper part of a shoe.

Alternative forms

Synonyms

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.