punchy
punchy Lexical Profile
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• adjective
Having a strong, immediate, and effective impact, especially by being concise, lively, and vigorous (of writing, speech, or music).
"The editor asked the journalist to write a short, punchy headline that would immediately grab the reader's attention."
North American Dazed, confused, or acting giddy and erratic, typically from exhaustion or from having received blows to the head.
"After staying awake for thirty-six hours to finish the software deployment, the engineers were feeling a bit punchy and laughing at everything."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Formed in the early 20th century from the noun 'punch' (in the figurative sense of vigor or forceful impact) plus the suffix '-y'; the informal sense of being dazed or disoriented developed separately as a shortening of 'punch-drunk'.