punji

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Etymology

From Jingpho .

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.
    • 2013, Gordon L. Rottman, World War II Allied Sabotage Devices and Booby Traps, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 19:
      Ordinary punjis will penetrate thick uniforms or the upper part of a shoe.

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