spunk
Plural: spunks
Noun
- material for starting a fire
- the courage to carry on
- "he kept fighting on pure spunk"
- A spark.
- Touchwood; tinder.
- A piece of tinder, sometimes impregnated with sulphur; a match.
- Courage; spirit; mettle; determination.
- An attractive person; a good-looker.
- Semen.
Verb
Verb Forms: spunked, spunking, spunks
- To begin to burn or to produce sparks.
- To catch fire; flame up.
- To ejaculate.
- To waste (money etc.).
Examples
- A tiny flame might spunk into existence if conditions are right for a fire.
- He spunked into the condom.
Origin / Etymology
1530, blend of spark + funk (obsolete, “spark”).
Funk (“spark, touchwood”) is from Middle English funke, fonke (“spark”), from Old English *funca (“spark”), from Proto-West Germanic *funkō, from Proto-Germanic *funkô (“spark”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peng- (“to shine”), and is akin to Middle Low German funke, fanke (“spark”), Middle Dutch vonke (“spark”), Old High German funcho, funko (“spark”), German Funke (“spark”).
Synonyms
heart, kindling, mettle, nerve, punk, tinder, touchwood, Adonis, beefcake, blow a nut, blow one's load, blow one's wad, breed, bust, bust a nut, catch fire, catch on fire, combust, come, conflagrate, cream, cum, ejaculate, explode, fire, fritter, get off, go off, go up in flames, go up in smoke, hunk, ignite, jizz, juice, light, nut, pop, shoot a rope, shoot off, shoot one's load, shoot one's wad, skeet, splooge, splurge, spoof, spooge, spray one's shorts, sprog, spunk, spurt, squander, take fire
Scrabble Score: 11
spunk: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordspunk: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
spunk: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary