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How to pronounce spunk in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms heart, mettle, nerve
Type of braveness, courageousness, bravery, courage
Derivation spunky


he kept fighting on pure spunk.
Type Words
Synonyms kindling, punk, tinder, touchwood
Type of igniter, ignitor, lighter

Examples of spunk

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He liked her spunk, her mindset and her desire to expand even in a down economy.
From the charlotteobserver.com
Whatever spunk SLU had lasted until a few seconds past the second media timeout.
From the stltoday.com
The Vice President displayed a spark and a spunk that many doubted he possessed.
From the time.com
Is it wrong to wish the Wolverines had enough spunk in their socks to punch back?
From the dispatch.com
Lime juice, red onion and fresh cilantro lend spunk to the beautiful appetizer.
From the washingtonpost.com
Stafford wasn't horrible, and the Lions showed a little spunk against the Saints.
From the sportsillustrated.cnn.com
As for Barrymore's plucky little pup, she's got verve, spunk and telegenic charm.
From the timesunion.com
Weisz dives gleefully into her role, giving the flighty Penelope a dash of spunk.
From the sltrib.com
Meg Tilly, as his young friend, plays the reality principle with winning spunk.
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More examples
  • Kindling: material for starting a fire
  • Heart: the courage to carry on; "he kept fighting on pure spunk"; "you haven't got the heart for baseball"
  • Spunk! is the fifth and final album by Swamp Zombies. It was released on the Doctor Dream Records label in 1993.
  • 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 bootleg demo album by the English punk rock band The Sex Pistols. It was originally released in the United Kingdom during September or October of 1977.
  • A spark; Touchwood; tinder; Courage; spirit; mettle; determination; An attractive person (normally male); Male ejaculate; semen; to ejaculate
  • Someone who is brave, perhaps foolishly so.
  • Rotten touchwood, or a kind of fungus prepared for tinder; figuratively, spirit, courage.
  • Attractive person - 'Cwor, what a spunk!'. The adjectival form is 'spunky'.