494: punk Apr 15, 2016

'Punk' goes back to the time of Shakespeare; he even uses the word in All's Well that Ends Well, though in those days the word denoted a well-dressed whore. Later, the slang-term denoted a young, often gay, companion of an older hobo. In the twenties, the word came to mean a no-good youth, which is where Dave Marsh probably got his meaning when he coined the term in 1971.