puki

puki (plural pukis)

1. A bowl or other dish used by Native Americans in the Southwest as a mold when making pots.
   • 2007, Suzanne J. E. Tourtillott, The Figure in Clay, →ISBN, page 80:

     First, I made a puki, a tool used by Native Americans to form a pinch pot. Typically, a puki is a shallow, fired bowl used to keep the bottom of the pinch pot round while holding the entire pot in shape.

   • 2004, Susan Ware, Notable American Women, →ISBN, page 418:

     She began a pot by forming a pancake of clay between her palms and laying it in a bowl-like vessel which was the bottom of a broken pot, called a puki.

2. Any form or mold used for making clay pots by hand.
   • 2012, Jo-Ann Mapson, Finding Casey, →ISBN, page 268:

     Like I showed you, the clay goes into the puki, coil by coil.

   • 2008, Deborah Morgenthal, Suzanne J. E. Tourtillott, The Penland Book of Ceramics, →ISBN, page 13:

     I begin by pinching a base or rolling out a slab that I place in a plaster form, or puki, for support..

• UKIP, kipu

pukî

1. (anatomy, euphemistic) vagina

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *puki, from Proto-Austronesian *puki.

• Hyphenation: pu‧ki

puki

1. the female genitalia; the vulva or vagina
2. the tiger cowrie (Cypraea tigris)
3. the boatlily (Tradescantia spathacea)

puki

1. third-person singular past indicative of pukea

• kipu

From the onomatopoeic stem of the verb pukkan (“to pop, burst”)^[1] (compare also pukkad (“to burst”)), possibly influenced by the onomatopoeic stem of púzik (“to fart”, childish); with the diminutive -i.

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: pu‧ki
• Rhymes: -ki

puki (plural pukik)

1. (informal, childish, humorous) fart (flatulence)

   Synonyms: szellentés, púzás

• kipu, kupi

From Malay puki, from Proto-Malayic *puki, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *puki, from Proto-Austronesian *puki.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpu.ki/
• Hyphenation: pu‧ki

puki (first-person possessive pukiku, second-person possessive pukimu, third-person possessive pukinya)

1. (slang, vulgar, anatomy) vagina

   Synonyms: memek, tempik, meki

• “puki” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

From Proto-Malayic *puki, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *puki, from Proto-Austronesian *puki. Compare Asi puki, Sakizaya puki and Tagalog puke.

• IPA^(key): /puki/
• Rhymes: -uki, -ki, -i

puki (Jawi spelling ڤوکي, plural puki-puki, informal 1st possessive pukiku, 2nd possessive pukimu, 3rd possessive pukinya)

1. (vulgar, anatomy) vulva (collectively the external female sexual organs)

   Synonym: faraj

• pukimak

• “puki” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

puki

1. (anatomy) vulva (collectively the external female sexual organs)

From Proto-Austronesian *puki.

• IPA^(key): /pu.ˈki/,

puki

1. (anatomy) vulva (collectively the external female sexual organs)

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈpuki/ , /ˈpukiʔ/
• Rhymes: -uki, -ukiʔ
• Syllabification: pu‧ki

puki or pukì (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜃᜒ)

1. Alternative form of puke

• kupi