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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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... "I must spunk up a little," he said, "for I want to use this net," but in spite of his resolve, he was soon watching, as before, for the ...

— Princess Polly's Gay Winter • Amy Brooks

... if they look like trouble," his host advised. "They've plenty of spunk, but I can tell you they make tracks for their holes if they hear one of those ...

— The Pawns Count • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... the seizure of fever came, and the sweat gathered on her lips, and her eyes went wild, she gritted her teeth and just clung to him. She had spunk—admirable, if perhaps destructive. "Love yuh," Frank kept saying. "Love ...

— The Planet Strappers • Raymond Zinke Gallun

... won't work. Won't eat. Aint got no spunk left. All the dogs is licking him. Wants to know what has become of you, and I don't know how to tell him. Mebbe ...

— White Fang • Jack London

... carried de rooster in where dere wus a sick Yankee. De Yankee took him in his hands an' de rooster crowed. He give mother thirty-five cents for him. De Yankee said if he could crow an' his eyes out he wanted him. He said, he called dat spunk. ...

— Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States • Various

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