spunky

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English spunk

Proto-Indo-European *-kos

Proto-Germanic *-gaz

Proto-West Germanic *-g

Old English -iġ

Middle English -y

English -y

English spunky

From spunk + -y.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈspʌŋki/

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• Rhymes: -ʌŋki

Adjective

spunky (comparative spunkier, superlative spunkiest)

1. (US) Spirited or plucky.
2. (UK, slang) Pertaining to or like spunk (semen).
   • 2016 May 5, “Thinking He's Hard (Little T Reply)”, performed by Soph Aspin:

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

3. (UK, slang) Stained with semen.
4. (Australia, slang) Of a person, stunningly beautiful; good-looking.

Derived terms

• spunkily
• spunkiness

Translations

plucky

• Polish: dzielny (pl), odważny (pl), hardy (pl), rezolutny (pl)

related to sperm

• Polish: spermowy (pl)

covered with sperm

• Polish: oblany spermą

stunningly beautiful

• Polish: oszałamiający (pl)

Noun

spunky (plural spunkys or spunkies)

1. (Australia, slang, dated) A good-looking person.
   • 1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 83:

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