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punjis

punjis is the plural 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

Questions about punjis

What is punjis the plural of?
Punjis is the plural of punji.

Words near punjis in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: punjis (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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