spunk

Etymology
1530, . Also, merging with, 1582, ultimately from , from.

is from, , from , from , from , from , and is akin to 🇨🇬, , 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, , 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  A spark.
 * 2)  Touchwood; tinder.
 * 3)  A piece of tinder, sometimes impregnated with sulphur; a match.
 * 4) * 1829, Society for Relief of the Destitute Sick (Edinburgh), Report, p. 7:
 * At present, her only means of procuring subsistence for herself and children, is by making spunks or matches, which, either she or her eldest child, a girl about six years of age, sells from door to door.
 * 1)  Courage; spirit; mettle; determination.
 * 2) * 1920 August, Edward Leonard, "Old Zeke′s Mule", Boys′ Life, p. 55:
 * “I reckon I′m as good as a mule,” he declared. “Maria knows what that desert is as well as we do, but she′s got more spunk than either of us. I'm not going to let any mule show more spunk than me.”
 * 1) * 2007 September 28, Graham Linehan, , Season 2, Episode 6:
 * Douglas: You've got spunk. And balls. And I like that in a woman.
 * 1)  An attractive person (normally male).
 * 2)  Semen.
 * “I reckon I′m as good as a mule,” he declared. “Maria knows what that desert is as well as we do, but she′s got more spunk than either of us. I'm not going to let any mule show more spunk than me.”
 * 1) * 2007 September 28, Graham Linehan, , Season 2, Episode 6:
 * Douglas: You've got spunk. And balls. And I like that in a woman.
 * 1)  An attractive person (normally male).
 * 2)  Semen.
 * 1)  Semen.
 * 1)  Semen.
 * 1)  Semen.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Finnish:, , tahdonvoima
 * French:, ,
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Slovak: odvaha, verva
 * Spanish:


 * Finnish: adonis
 * German: heißer Typ
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish: guaperas, ,


 * Bulgarian: сперма
 * Catalan:
 * Estonian: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:, ,
 * Italian:
 * Manx: sheel
 * Neapolitan: sfaccimma
 * Portuguese:, , ,
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swedish: ,

Verb

 * 1)  To catch fire; flame up.
 * 2)  To ejaculate.
 * 3)  To waste (money etc.).
 * 1)  To waste (money etc.).

Translations

 * Swedish:, ,