Crossword clues for spunk
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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 of fungus; punk; amadou.
--Sir T. Browne.-
An inflammable temper; spirit; mettle; pluck; as, a man of spunk. [Colloq.]
A lawless and dangerous set, men of spunk, and spirit, and power, both of mind and body.
--Prof. Wilson.
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; courage, spunk." Vulgar slang sense of "seminal fluid" is recorded from c.1888.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context countable obsolete English) A spark. 2 (context uncountable English) touchwood; tinder. 3 (context countable chiefly Scotland obsolete English) A piece of tinder, sometimes impregnated with sulphur; a match. 4 (context uncountable English) courage; spirit; mettle; determination. 5 (context countable UK Australia New Zealand slang English) An attractive person (normally male). 6 (context uncountable chiefly UK vulgar slang English) semen. vb. (context slang vulgar English) To ejaculate.
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Spunk may also refer to:
Spunk is a bootleg demo album by the English punk rock band The Sex Pistols. It was originally released in the United Kingdom during September or October 1977.
The album comprises studio demos and talking recorded with Dave Goodman during 1976 and early 1977, while original bass player Glen Matlock was still a member of the band. Most of the songs would later be re-recorded and officially released on the group's album, Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols.
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.
Spunk is a brand of Danish candy, launched in 1971 by Danish candy manufacturers Galle & Jessen and commonly sold in Denmark and Germany.
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.