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punjie

punjie 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 punjie

pluralpunjies

Questions about punjie

What is punjie the alternative form of?
Punjie is the alternative form of punji.

Words near punjie in the dictionary

  1. punji
  2. punji pit
  3. punji pits
  4. punji stick
  5. punji sticks
  6. punjie
  7. punjies
  8. punjis
  9. punjum
  10. punjums
  11. punk

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Adapted from Wiktionary: punjie (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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