Usually means: Courageous spirit; lively and determined.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. spunk: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. spunk: Merriam-Webster
  3. spunk: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. spunk: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. spunk: Collins English Dictionary
  6. spunk: Vocabulary.com
  7. spunk: Wordnik
  8. spunk: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. spunk: Wiktionary
  10. spunk: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. spunk: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. spunk: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. spunk: Dictionary.com
  14. spunk: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. spunk: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Spunk (Sex Pistols bootleg album), Spunk (album), Spunk (candy), Spunk (play), Spunk: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Spunk: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. spunk: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. spunk: Rhymezone
  20. Spunk: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. spunk: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. SPUNK: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  23. spunk: FreeDictionary.org
  24. spunk: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. spunk: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. spunk: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. spunk: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. spunk: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. spunk: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. spunk, spunk: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. spunk, spunk (up): English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. spunk: ESL Slang page

(Note: See spunking as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (countable, obsolete) A spark.
noun:  (uncountable) Touchwood; tinder.
noun:  (countable, chiefly Scotland, obsolete) A piece of tinder, sometimes impregnated with sulphur; a match.
noun:  (uncountable) Courage; spirit; mettle; determination.
noun:  (countable, UK, Australia, New Zealand, slang) An attractive person (normally male).
noun:  (uncountable, chiefly UK, vulgar, slang) Semen.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To catch fire; flame up.
verb:  (intransitive, slang, vulgar) To ejaculate.
verb:  (transitive, slang, vulgar) To waste (money etc.).

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