Meaning

7 senses
  1. (uncountable, usually)Touchwood; tinder.

  2. (uncountable, usually)Courage; spirit; mettle; determination.

    Courage, Mumm

    отва́гаotvága

    the courage to carry on

  3. (Australia, New Zealand, UK, countable, slang, usually)An attractive person; a good-looker.

    heißer Typ

  4. (UK, slang, uncountable, usually, vulgar)Semen.

    Soße, Wichse, Saft

    кончаkonča

  5. (countable, obsolete, usually)A spark.

  6. (UK, countable, obsolete, usually)Synonym of taper, a thin stick used for transferring flames, especially a sulfur match.

  7. (Scotland, countable, obsolete, usually)Synonym of match, a thin chemically-treated stick used for creating flames.

Examples

2 sentences
  1. You've got spunk.

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  2. Tom has spunk.

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Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
courage; spirit; mettle; determination:
slang: semen:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
courage; spirit; mettle; determination:
slang: attractive male:
slang: semen:

Origin

1530, blend of spark + funk (obsolete, “spark”).

1530, blend of spark + funk (obsolete, “spark”).

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Forms

plural: spunks
Singularspunk
Pluralspunks

regular

Synonyms

12 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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