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spunky

adj
/ˈspʌŋki/

Etymology

From spunk + -y.

  1. derived from *(s)peng-✻ — “to shine”
  2. derived from *funkô✻
  3. derived from *funkō✻
  4. derived from *funca✻
  5. derived from funke
  6. suffixed as spunky — “spunk + y”

Definitions

  1. Spirited or plucky.

  2. Pertaining to or like spunk (semen).

    • I'm not the kind of girl you want to come across / Yo, it's Josh T with his spunky sauce

  3. Stained with semen.

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. Of a person, stunningly beautiful

      Of a person, stunningly beautiful; good-looking.

    2. A good-looking person.

      • But every Friday night up at the Harbord Diggers disco he'd be holding court, three or four spunkys hanging off each arm[.]

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