Oops! (Re: More on "punk")

[Laurence Horn]

At 3:57 PM -0400 6/14/05, Laurence Horn wrote:
>At 12:17 PM -0700 6/14/05, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>>"Punk" is another one of those homosexual words that originally
>>referred to women.
>>
>>JL
>
>specifically = 'harlot' (so Farmer & Henley), e.g. in Measure for
>Measure (v.i):
>
>She may be a punk, for many of them are neither maid, widow, nor wife.
>
>Similarly Johnson, Chapman, Congreve, etc.
>
That should be Jonson, not Johnson.  By the latter's era, the usage
may have been no longer extant for all I know.