punch

(pŭnch),

An instrument for making a hole or indentation in some solid material or for driving out a foreign body in such material.

[L. pungo, pp. punctus, to stick, to punch]

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YOUNGSTERS were as pleased as Punch to be treated to a traditional puppet show.

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Under any other circumstance, you might be pleased as punch to learn you had a much larger estate than you thought you did.

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Herrera reluctantly descends from a number of what must be record-setting balances, and she looks pleased as Punch doing so.

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