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punjee

punjee is the alternative form of punji.

Meaning of punji

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.
    • Ordinary punjis will penetrate thick uniforms or the upper part of a shoe.2013, Gordon L. Rottman, World War II Allied Sabotage Devices and Booby Traps, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 19

Forms of punjee

pluralpunjees

Questions about punjee

What is punjee the alternative form of?
Punjee is the alternative form of punji.

Words near punjee in the dictionary

  1. Punjaub
  2. Punjaubee
  3. Punjaubees
  4. Punjaubi
  5. Punjaubis
  6. punjee
  7. punjees
  8. punji
  9. punji pit
  10. punji pits
  11. punji stick

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Adapted from Wiktionary: punjee (page history and authors); punji (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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