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noun

Spunk n. (Written also sponk)

Wood that readily takes fire; touchwood; also, a kind of tinder made from a species of fungus; punk; amadou.

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."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Spunk" Quotes from Famous Books

... that moment the Lord's ain hand out o' the Heevens struck the Horror whaur it stood; the auld, deid, desecrated corp o' the witch-wife, sae lang keepit frae the grave and hirsled round by deils, lowed up like a brunstane spunk and fell in ashes to the grund; the thunder followed, peal on dirling peal, the rairing rain upon the back o' that; and Mr. Soulis lowped through the garden hedge, and ran, wi' skelloch ...

— Masterpieces of Mystery, Vol. 1 (of 4) - Ghost Stories • Various

... the witness-stand in his own behalf. It rested with him and his lawyer to settle that; under the law he could not be forced to testify. The transcript of his testimony at the inquest was ready at the prosecutor's hand. Joe would be confronted with that, and, if there was a spark of spunk in him, people said, he would rise up and stand by it. And then, once Sam Lucas got him in the witness-chair, it would be all day with ...

— The Bondboy • George W. (George Washington) Ogden

... man's spunk. Well, siree, those four men clumb into that yawl, an' a bunch of others jumped into the mush-ice an' toted her 'way out to clear water. With a yell, the fisherman put her nose inter the gale an' pulled. But it wa'n't ...

— The Boy With the U. S. Life-Savers • Francis Rolt-Wheeler

... neither," declared Iggy, who seemed to have recovered all his spunk and spirit. "It is of a betterness to shoot lots when of a gas mast ...

— The Khaki Boys Over the Top - Doing and Daring for Uncle Sam • Gordon Bates

... have fish frys than to dig ditches. All of which I hearn Elmira talking over with the neighbours more'n once when I was growing up, and they all says: "How sad it is you have came to this, Elmira!" And then she'd kind o' spunk up and say, thanks to glory, she'd kep' ...

— Danny's Own Story • Don Marquis

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