See spunk on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1665, R[obert] Hooke, chapter XXII, in Micrographia: Or Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses. […], London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC:",
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"ref": "1829, Society for Relief of the Destitute Sick (Edinburgh), Report, p. 7",
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"ref": "1843, John Wilson, John Gibson Lockhart, William Maginn, James Hogg, The Noctes Ambrosianæ of “Blackwood”, volume IV, page 396:",
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"ref": "1920 August, Edward Leonard, \"Old Zeke′s Mule\", Boys′ Life, p. 55",
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},
{
"ref": "2007 September 28, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 2, Episode 6",
"text": "Douglas: You've got spunk. And balls. And I like that in a woman."
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"ref": "2005, Sue Austin, Women′s Aggressive Fantasies: A Post-Jungian Exploration of Self-Hatred, Love and Agency, UK: Routledge, page 166:",
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"word": "beefcake"
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"ref": "1912, D.H. Lawrence, letter to Edward Garnett, 3 July 1912:",
"text": "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.",
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"ref": "1980, “In the Flat Field”, in In the Flat Field, performed by Bauhaus:",
"text": "Between spunk-stained sheet and odorous whim / Camera eye-flick-shudder within",
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{
"ref": "2007, Debra Hyde, “Kidnapped”, in Violet Blue, editor, Lust: Erotic Fantasies for Women, ReadHowYouWant, published 2010, page 188:",
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"lang": "Bulgarian",
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"sense": "courage; spirit; mettle; determination",
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"word": "moed"
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"code": "nl",
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},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "courage; spirit; mettle; determination",
"word": "sisu"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "courage; spirit; mettle; determination",
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"word": "tahdonvoima"
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "courage; spirit; mettle; determination",
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"masculine"
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
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"tags": [
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
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"code": "de",
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{
"code": "de",
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"code": "ro",
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"sense": "courage; spirit; mettle; determination",
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"code": "fi",
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"tags": [
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{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "slang: attractive male",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "gato"
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "slang: attractive male",
"tags": [
"Spain",
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "slang: attractive male",
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"masculine"
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "slang: attractive male",
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
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{
"code": "ca",
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{
"code": "et",
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"sense": "slang: semen",
"word": "jobi"
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{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "slang: semen",
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "slang: semen",
"word": "mälli"
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "slang: semen",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "foutre"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "slang: semen",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Soße"
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"sense": "slang: semen",
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"code": "it",
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{
"code": "nap",
"lang": "Neapolitan",
"sense": "slang: semen",
"word": "sfaccimma"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "slang: semen",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "porra"
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{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "slang: semen",
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{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "slang: semen",
"word": "gala"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
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"word": "конча"
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "slang: semen",
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"code": "sv",
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{
"word": "combust"
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"word": "ejaculate"
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"(transitive, slang, vulgar) To waste (money etc.)."
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"word": "splurge"
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{
"word": "squander"
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "slang: ejaculate semen",
"word": "sagga"
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "slang: ejaculate semen",
"word": "sarra"
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}
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