It's a stick that keeps an ember like burning incense. I use a punk for lighting fireworks each year.

How does this word function as a suffix in another word ?

Not sure I understand the meaning of your question. Maybe the Wikipedia can help? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punk_subculture

I understand that the word punk has to do with some kind of revolution or non conformism. The hippies could be categorised as punks.

It does look a la mode in the Western World, but do you really need to label yourself something in order to carve out a self-identity ?

Sometimes this is better than jabber !!

In solarpunk just like steampunk and cyberpunk I don't think the punk park hold much meaning.

It is similar to porn in unixporn or foodporn. It just signals that whatever you are talking about is alao an aesthetic.

Categorizing the hippies as a kind of punk ruined my day tho.

Uh, categorizing self-absorbed hippies as punks is about as wrong as it gets 😅

It's not about the lable, its just a shortcut to explain a common cause and idea how to interact with one another.

The original meaning is "bad, rotten" in relation to wood. From there it was applied to people as a derogatory term.

It was then presumably intentionally claimed as a badge of pride for the punk music scene, where it effectively means "anti-orthodox, anti-authority, rebellious, outsider"

It gets used in pretty diverse circumstances, many of which don't share much meaning with the original music scene meaning. Like steampunk is basically a purely aesthetic term, with none of the political connotations.

Punks hated hippies. To punks, hippies were privileged kids that could always go home and get bailed out. Punks were treated like scum and fought for what they believed in.

If you can imagine the future as a boot stamping on a human face -- for ever -- then punk is a second boot up that first boot guy's ass.

That's new, because where l am, l understand neither punks nor hippies. I simply know that for hippies, sex and drugs were the order of life.

Don't get this.

Oh wait, punks are supposed to kick the ass (or the balls) of the ones in power ? Like the Cockroach Party ?

https://feddit.online/c/news_from_the_subcontinent

Punk life was more self destructive and art aligned. Politics, drugs, sex, art, poverty, and alienation made punk, at least in the early stages.

That's a nice link, thanks !! It explains the meaning of punk nicely.

So, how does the word punk combine with solar to express a meaning ?

These are features of the Western World, which l would never understand.

The Wikipedia page expresses it fairly clearly in the intro paragraph:

Solarpunk is a literary, artistic, and social movement, closely related to the hopepunk movement, that envisions and works toward actualizing a sustainable future interconnected with nature and community. The "solar" represents solar energy as a renewable energy source and an optimistic vision of the future that rejects climate doomerism, while the "punk" refers to do it yourself and the countercultural, post-capitalist, and sometimes decolonial aspects of creating such a future.

If l say, "Poverty is the byproduct of capitalism," does that make any sense to you ??

So solar punksters are basically worshippers of Surya Deva ??

https://hindumirror.com/who-is-surya-dev/

I tried.

Punks know that they can't do it alone by themselves. Even if they did thats just exchanging one strongman for another. Only through cooperation with our community and resistance to the power structure can good lasting change happen. Punk has a different definition for each person who takes the label. Its more of an outlook than a structure.

... No?

yes!! Reading about the Cockroach Party, I would say that they align with the values of punk subcultures. Activism, saying "fuck you" to politicians who don't stand for the people, rejecting mainstream culture by dressing in ways that aren't considered "normal" (such as cockroach costumes), speaking loud and proud about what everyday people need and want, standing up for women's rights... Sounds punk to me

Rebel, anti-authorian, no-future, good-for-nothing-except-kicking-nazi-ass 'youth' (who reach their 60s nowadays).

Hippies look friendly on the outside, but are rotten and nasty at their core.

Punks look rotten and nasty on the outside, and are friendly at their core.

Are you talking about hippies or capitalists ??

I've never seen any hippi though.

I never said the word capitalist.

Replace the hippies with capitalists in your sentence and then read again.

Does that make sense ??

I guess it makes sense. But I am not talking about capitalists.

I am talking about hippies, and punks. I do not know any capitalists, but I was raised by two hippies, with lots of hippie friends. And I am a punk with many punk friends.

I'm also a punk, a spiritual punk, as l am a worshipper of Ma Kamakhya https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamakhya

Her annual festival always coincides with the summer solstice https://thesanatantales.com/ambubachi-mela-2026/

Red pieces of wet cloth is distributed as prasad among the devotees during ambuvachi. It symbolises used sanitary pads.