spunk

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A spark.

   “"[...] That's none such an entirely bad little man, yon little man with the red head," said Alan. "He has some spunks of decency."”

2. isim Touchwood; tinder.

   “Spunk, or Touch-wood prepared, might perhaps make it Russet: and some, as Beringuccio affirmeth, have promised to make it Red.”

3. isim Synonym of taper, a thin stick used for transferring flames, especially a sulfur match.

   “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.”

4. isim Synonym of match, a thin chemically-treated stick used for creating flames.

   “... the old sulphur match was intended, not to produce fire, but to convey fire from the tinder to the candle... The vernacular name for sulphur matches was "spunks", and even in some of the country districts of Scotland the name has descended to modern matches.”

5. isim Courage; spirit; mettle; determination.

   “1847, Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey, ch 17. She showed me the letters of another individual, too, the unfortunate Mr. Green, who had not the courage, or, as she expressed it, the “spunk,” to plead his cause in person, but whom one denial would not satisfy: he must write again and again.”

6. isim An attractive person; a good-looker.

   “I got a transfer in my bank job and on the first day on the job in the big smoke I had to share a teller's box with a young lady called Kim, a real spunk and my future wife.”

7. isim Semen.

   “Curse the blasted, jelly-boned swines[...] the sniveling, dribbling, dithering palsied pulse-less lot that make up England today. They've got white of egg in their veins, and their spunk is that watery it's a marvel they can breed.”

8. fiil To catch fire; flame up.
9. fiil To ejaculate.

   “He spunked into the condom.”

10. fiil To waste (money etc.).