Home › Words › P › punjipunjipunji means 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.EtymologyFrom Jingpho [Term?].nounA sharpened stick, often made of bamboo and covered in feces or other biohazardous material, set in the ground to wound or impale enemy soldiers.e.g.“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:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.paling 55% match — A pointed stick used to make a fence. vs punji →punge 54% match — To pierce, prick, puncture. vs punji →punction 51% match — A puncture or pricking. vs punji →spontoon 50% match — A pointed weapon similar to a pike. vs punji →painstick 49% match — A weapon consisting of a baton capable of delivering a jolt of pain on contact with the body. vs punji →punt 49% match — A narrow shallow boat, square at both ends, traditionally propelled by a pole. vs punji →jembe 49% match — A kind of hoe (digging tool). vs punji →angon 48% match — A type of javelin with a barbed tip, used by the Franks and the various Germanic tribes in the Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages. vs punji →