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Precious mettle?
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spunk
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1530s, "a spark," Scottish, from Gaelic spong "tinder, pith, sponge," from Latin spongia (see sponge (n.)). The sense of "courage, pluck, mettle" is first attested 1773. A similar sense evolution took place in cognate Irish sponnc "sponge, tinder, spark; ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Erma's got a lot of spunk .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Spunk \Spunk\ (sp[u^ ng]k), n. [Gael. spong, or Ir. sponc, tinder, sponge; cf. AS. sponge a sponge (L. spongia), sp[=o]n a chip. Cf. Sponge , Punk .] [Written also sponk .] Wood that readily takes fire; touchwood; also, a kind of tinder made from a species ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Spunk is a play by American playwright George C. Wolfe and is an adaptation of three stories by Zora Neale Hurston . Wolfe won a 1989 Obie award for best off-Broadway director for Spunk.
Usage examples of spunk.
Killer Durgan, recognizable as he leaned from the front seat, sought to avenge the death of Hoke Larrigan and he made Spunk Hogan his target.
Peg, you should know that when a man has been chaste for a while, he is often under such pressure by the time his chastity ends that he can do nothing but squirt his spunk.
Joy Hall spunk has several curious properties besides the flavour of egg nog.
But now, having reminded you that she will shortly be bathing in the spunk of others, she has taken revenge.
A woman cannot be impregnated even by an Earthman until a month after she has swallowed her last Tyrin spunk -- that is, until after her courses resume.
With no trouble at all I could remember endless incidents, spunk gushing in swimmable quantities.
That had been the plan during the outline stage, anyway, but as Tania read over her words she feared taking the spunk from Iona would plunge the story into mediocrity.
Youse mah wife and all Ah want you tuh do is gimme uh chance tuh show mah spunk.
Spunk soon erupted onto the floor from between the bodies, wetting his leg and foot.
A spunk bestreaked Thorntis turned about to face his lord, head down -- though not his lower one!
This freed the spunk from them all, bringing a great increase of intensity, but still not enough to destroy my independence.
It now looked like a straight playoff between Christopher Meadowbrook and Spunk Davis, with maybe Nub Forkner as an outside possibility.
She twisted under his eager thrusts, raking her claws across his back when he spurted his first load of spunk into her slit and upon her scaled belly.
With every bump spunk welled from her nostrils and flowed over her cheekbones to the floor.
She has some serious chutzpa, spunk, fortitude, and a whole lot of other stuff.