spunk-water

noun

Etymology

Regional variant of stump-water. Popularised by Mark Twain in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

Definitions

  1. Alternative form of stump-water (“stagnant water from a hollow in a rotting tree stump”).

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for spunk-water. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA