"spunk" meaning in All languages combined

See spunk on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

IPA: /spʌŋk/ Audio: en-us-spunk.ogg [US], en-au-spunk.ogg [Australia] Forms: spunks [plural]
Rhymes: -ʌŋk Etymology: 1530, blend of spark + funk (obsolete, “spark”). Also, merging with spunck, 1582, ultimately from Middle Irish sponc, from Latin spongia (“sponge”). Funk (“spark, touchwood”) is from Middle English funke, fonke (“spark”), from Old English *funca (“spark”), from Proto-West Germanic *funkō, from Proto-Germanic *funkô (“spark”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peng- (“to shine”), and is akin to Middle Low German funke, fanke (“spark”), Middle Dutch vonke (“spark”), Old High German funcho, funko (“spark”), German Funke (“spark”). Etymology templates: {{blend|en|spark|funk|nocap=1|t2=spark|tr2=obsolete}} blend of spark + funk (obsolete, “spark”), {{m|en|spunck}} spunck, {{der|en|mga|sponc}} Middle Irish sponc, {{der|en|la|spongia|t=sponge}} Latin spongia (“sponge”), {{m|en|funk|Funk|spark, touchwood}} Funk (“spark, touchwood”), {{der|en|enm|funke}} Middle English funke, {{m|enm|fonke||spark}} fonke (“spark”), {{der|en|ang|*funca||spark}} Old English *funca (“spark”), {{der|en|gmw-pro|*funkō}} Proto-West Germanic *funkō, {{der|en|gem-pro|*funkô||spark}} Proto-Germanic *funkô (“spark”), {{der|en|ine-pro|*(s)peng-|t=to shine}} Proto-Indo-European *(s)peng- (“to shine”), {{cog|gml|funke}} Middle Low German funke, {{m|gml|fanke||spark}} fanke (“spark”), {{cog|dum|vonke||spark}} Middle Dutch vonke (“spark”), {{cog|goh|funcho}} Old High German funcho, {{m|goh|funko||spark}} funko (“spark”), {{cog|de|Funke||spark}} German Funke (“spark”) Head templates: {{en-noun|-|s}} spunk (usually uncountable, plural spunks)
  1. (countable, obsolete) A spark. Tags: countable, obsolete, usually
    Sense id: en-spunk-en-noun-Ka6m971C
  2. (uncountable) Touchwood; tinder. Tags: uncountable, usually
    Sense id: en-spunk-en-noun-AftaHW-R Categories (other): English blends Disambiguation of English blends: 2 11 8 11 22 21 12 7 6
  3. (countable, chiefly Scotland, obsolete) A piece of tinder, sometimes impregnated with sulphur; a match. Tags: Scotland, countable, obsolete, usually
    Sense id: en-spunk-en-noun-P~bhREXf Categories (other): Scottish English
  4. (uncountable) Courage; spirit; mettle; determination. Tags: uncountable, usually Translations (courage; spirit; mettle; determination): кураж (kuraž) [masculine] (Bulgarian), moed (Dutch), vastberadenheid (Dutch), levendigheid (Dutch), sisu (Finnish), päättäväisyys (Finnish), tahdonvoima (Finnish), entrain [masculine] (French), vivacité [feminine] (French), vitalité [feminine] (French), Courage [feminine] (German), Mumm [masculine] (German), bátorság (Hungarian), curaj (Romanian), отвага (otvaga) (Russian), odvaha [feminine] (Slovak), verva [feminine] (Slovak), agallas [feminine, plural] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-spunk-en-noun-tosDJ63i Categories (other): English blends Disambiguation of English blends: 2 11 8 11 22 21 12 7 6 Disambiguation of 'courage; spirit; mettle; determination': 0 1 1 96 1 1
  5. (countable, UK, Australia, New Zealand, slang) An attractive person (normally male). Tags: Australia, New-Zealand, UK, countable, slang, usually Categories (topical): Bodily fluids Synonyms: Adonis, beefcake, hunk Translations (slang: attractive male): adonis (Finnish), heißer Typ [masculine] (German), gato [masculine] (Portuguese), guaperas [Spain, masculine] (Spanish), churro [Latin-America, masculine] (Spanish), guapetón [masculine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-spunk-en-noun-AQBYtLk0 Disambiguation of Bodily fluids: 1 15 7 10 45 14 2 5 1 Categories (other): Australian English, British English, New Zealand English, English blends, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English blends: 2 11 8 11 22 21 12 7 6 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 0 25 10 2 31 25 2 3 1 Disambiguation of 'slang: attractive male': 0 3 2 4 77 14
  6. (uncountable, chiefly UK, vulgar, slang) Semen. Tags: UK, slang, uncountable, usually, vulgar Translations (slang: semen): сперма (sperma) [feminine] (Bulgarian), escorreguda [feminine] (Catalan), jobi (Estonian), pauk (Estonian), mälli (Finnish), foutre [masculine] (French), Soße [feminine] (German), Wichse [feminine] (German), Saft [masculine] (German), sborra [feminine] (Italian), sheel [masculine] (Manx), sfaccimma (Neapolitan), porra [feminine] (Portuguese), gozo (Portuguese), gala (Portuguese), конча (konča) (Russian), leche [feminine] (Spanish), lefa [Spain, feminine] (Spanish), mecos [Mexico, colloquial, masculine] (Spanish), sagge [common-gender] (Swedish), sarre [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-spunk-en-noun-QrGgcU0K Categories (other): British English, English blends Disambiguation of English blends: 2 11 8 11 22 21 12 7 6 Disambiguation of 'slang: semen': 0 3 2 2 11 83
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: spunkful, spunkless, spunklike, spunk-water, spunky

Verb [English]

IPA: /spʌŋk/ Audio: en-us-spunk.ogg [US], en-au-spunk.ogg [Australia] Forms: spunks [present, singular, third-person], spunking [participle, present], spunked [participle, past], spunked [past]
Rhymes: -ʌŋk Etymology: 1530, blend of spark + funk (obsolete, “spark”). Also, merging with spunck, 1582, ultimately from Middle Irish sponc, from Latin spongia (“sponge”). Funk (“spark, touchwood”) is from Middle English funke, fonke (“spark”), from Old English *funca (“spark”), from Proto-West Germanic *funkō, from Proto-Germanic *funkô (“spark”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peng- (“to shine”), and is akin to Middle Low German funke, fanke (“spark”), Middle Dutch vonke (“spark”), Old High German funcho, funko (“spark”), German Funke (“spark”). Etymology templates: {{blend|en|spark|funk|nocap=1|t2=spark|tr2=obsolete}} blend of spark + funk (obsolete, “spark”), {{m|en|spunck}} spunck, {{der|en|mga|sponc}} Middle Irish sponc, {{der|en|la|spongia|t=sponge}} Latin spongia (“sponge”), {{m|en|funk|Funk|spark, touchwood}} Funk (“spark, touchwood”), {{der|en|enm|funke}} Middle English funke, {{m|enm|fonke||spark}} fonke (“spark”), {{der|en|ang|*funca||spark}} Old English *funca (“spark”), {{der|en|gmw-pro|*funkō}} Proto-West Germanic *funkō, {{der|en|gem-pro|*funkô||spark}} Proto-Germanic *funkô (“spark”), {{der|en|ine-pro|*(s)peng-|t=to shine}} Proto-Indo-European *(s)peng- (“to shine”), {{cog|gml|funke}} Middle Low German funke, {{m|gml|fanke||spark}} fanke (“spark”), {{cog|dum|vonke||spark}} Middle Dutch vonke (“spark”), {{cog|goh|funcho}} Old High German funcho, {{m|goh|funko||spark}} funko (“spark”), {{cog|de|Funke||spark}} German Funke (“spark”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} spunk (third-person singular simple present spunks, present participle spunking, simple past and past participle spunked)
  1. (intransitive, obsolete) To catch fire; flame up. Tags: intransitive, obsolete
    Sense id: en-spunk-en-verb-WGwYjiFD Categories (other): English blends Disambiguation of English blends: 2 11 8 11 22 21 12 7 6
  2. (intransitive, slang, vulgar) To ejaculate. Tags: intransitive, slang, vulgar Categories (topical): Sex Translations (slang: ejaculate semen): sagga (Swedish), sarra (Swedish), satsa (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-spunk-en-verb-rvCEwRlu Disambiguation of Sex: 2 2 3 2 28 12 0 49 3 Disambiguation of 'slang: ejaculate semen': 6 91 3
  3. (transitive, slang, vulgar) To waste (money etc.). Tags: slang, transitive, vulgar
    Sense id: en-spunk-en-verb-GasxHTcT

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for spunk meaning in All languages combined (20.1kB)

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "spunkful"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "spunkless"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "spunklike"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "spunk-water"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "spunky"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ga",
            "2": "sponc",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Irish: sponc",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Irish: sponc"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "spark",
        "3": "funk",
        "nocap": "1",
        "t2": "spark",
        "tr2": "obsolete"
      },
      "expansion": "blend of spark + funk (obsolete, “spark”)",
      "name": "blend"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "spunck"
      },
      "expansion": "spunck",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "mga",
        "3": "sponc"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle Irish sponc",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "spongia",
        "t": "sponge"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin spongia (“sponge”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "funk",
        "3": "Funk",
        "4": "spark, touchwood"
      },
      "expansion": "Funk (“spark, touchwood”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "funke"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English funke",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "fonke",
        "3": "",
        "4": "spark"
      },
      "expansion": "fonke (“spark”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "*funca",
        "4": "",
        "5": "spark"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English *funca (“spark”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "gmw-pro",
        "3": "*funkō"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *funkō",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "gem-pro",
        "3": "*funkô",
        "4": "",
        "5": "spark"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *funkô (“spark”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*(s)peng-",
        "t": "to shine"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *(s)peng- (“to shine”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gml",
        "2": "funke"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle Low German funke",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gml",
        "2": "fanke",
        "3": "",
        "4": "spark"
      },
      "expansion": "fanke (“spark”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "dum",
        "2": "vonke",
        "3": "",
        "4": "spark"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle Dutch vonke (“spark”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "goh",
        "2": "funcho"
      },
      "expansion": "Old High German funcho",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "goh",
        "2": "funko",
        "3": "",
        "4": "spark"
      },
      "expansion": "funko (“spark”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "Funke",
        "3": "",
        "4": "spark"
      },
      "expansion": "German Funke (“spark”)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "1530, blend of spark + funk (obsolete, “spark”). Also, merging with spunck, 1582, ultimately from Middle Irish sponc, from Latin spongia (“sponge”).\nFunk (“spark, touchwood”) is from Middle English funke, fonke (“spark”), from Old English *funca (“spark”), from Proto-West Germanic *funkō, from Proto-Germanic *funkô (“spark”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peng- (“to shine”), and is akin to Middle Low German funke, fanke (“spark”), Middle Dutch vonke (“spark”), Old High German funcho, funko (“spark”), German Funke (“spark”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "spunks",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-",
        "2": "s"
      },
      "expansion": "spunk (usually uncountable, plural spunks)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "A spark."
      ],
      "id": "en-spunk-en-noun-Ka6m971C",
      "links": [
        [
          "spark",
          "spark#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(countable, obsolete) A spark."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "obsolete",
        "usually"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "2 11 8 11 22 21 12 7 6",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English blends",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Touchwood; tinder."
      ],
      "id": "en-spunk-en-noun-AftaHW-R",
      "links": [
        [
          "Touchwood",
          "touchwood"
        ],
        [
          "tinder",
          "tinder"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(uncountable) Touchwood; tinder."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Scottish English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1829, Society for Relief of the Destitute Sick (Edinburgh), Report, p. 7",
          "text": "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."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1843, John Wilson, John Gibson Lockhart, William Maginn, James Hogg, The Noctes Ambrosianæ of “Blackwood”, volume IV, page 396",
          "text": "“Spunks — spunks — spunks — who will buy my spunks?” — cried an errant voice with a beseeching earnestness[…].",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A piece of tinder, sometimes impregnated with sulphur; a match."
      ],
      "id": "en-spunk-en-noun-P~bhREXf",
      "links": [
        [
          "sulphur",
          "sulphur"
        ],
        [
          "match",
          "match"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(countable, chiefly Scotland, obsolete) A piece of tinder, sometimes impregnated with sulphur; a match."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Scotland",
        "countable",
        "obsolete",
        "usually"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "2 11 8 11 22 21 12 7 6",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English blends",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1920 August, Edward Leonard, \"Old Zeke′s Mule\", Boys′ Life, p. 55",
          "text": "“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.”"
        },
        {
          "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."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Courage; spirit; mettle; determination."
      ],
      "id": "en-spunk-en-noun-tosDJ63i",
      "links": [
        [
          "Courage",
          "courage"
        ],
        [
          "spirit",
          "spirit"
        ],
        [
          "mettle",
          "mettle"
        ],
        [
          "determination",
          "determination"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(uncountable) Courage; spirit; mettle; determination."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "0 1 1 96 1 1",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "kuraž",
          "sense": "courage; spirit; mettle; determination",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "кураж"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 1 1 96 1 1",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "courage; spirit; mettle; determination",
          "word": "moed"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 1 1 96 1 1",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "courage; spirit; mettle; determination",
          "word": "vastberadenheid"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 1 1 96 1 1",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "courage; spirit; mettle; determination",
          "word": "levendigheid"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 1 1 96 1 1",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "courage; spirit; mettle; determination",
          "word": "sisu"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 1 1 96 1 1",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "courage; spirit; mettle; determination",
          "word": "päättäväisyys"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 1 1 96 1 1",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "courage; spirit; mettle; determination",
          "word": "tahdonvoima"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 1 1 96 1 1",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "courage; spirit; mettle; determination",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "entrain"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 1 1 96 1 1",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "courage; spirit; mettle; determination",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "vivacité"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 1 1 96 1 1",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "courage; spirit; mettle; determination",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "vitalité"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 1 1 96 1 1",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "courage; spirit; mettle; determination",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Courage"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 1 1 96 1 1",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "courage; spirit; mettle; determination",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Mumm"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 1 1 96 1 1",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "courage; spirit; mettle; determination",
          "word": "bátorság"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 1 1 96 1 1",
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "courage; spirit; mettle; determination",
          "word": "curaj"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 1 1 96 1 1",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "otvaga",
          "sense": "courage; spirit; mettle; determination",
          "word": "отвага"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 1 1 96 1 1",
          "code": "sk",
          "lang": "Slovak",
          "sense": "courage; spirit; mettle; determination",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "odvaha"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 1 1 96 1 1",
          "code": "sk",
          "lang": "Slovak",
          "sense": "courage; spirit; mettle; determination",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "verva"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 1 1 96 1 1",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "courage; spirit; mettle; determination",
          "tags": [
            "feminine",
            "plural"
          ],
          "word": "agallas"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Australian English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "British English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "New Zealand English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "2 11 8 11 22 21 12 7 6",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English blends",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "0 25 10 2 31 25 2 3 1",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "1 15 7 10 45 14 2 5 1",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Bodily fluids",
          "orig": "en:Bodily fluids",
          "parents": [
            "Body parts",
            "Liquids",
            "Body",
            "Anatomy",
            "Matter",
            "Human",
            "Biology",
            "Medicine",
            "Chemistry",
            "Nature",
            "All topics",
            "Sciences",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2005, Sue Austin, Women′s Aggressive Fantasies: A Post-Jungian Exploration of Self-Hatred, Love and Agency, UK: Routledge, page 166",
          "text": "We are welcomed by 20 year old spunks, as we make a last valiant attempt with our bodies - gasp, gasp - and try to get back in shape.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An attractive person (normally male)."
      ],
      "id": "en-spunk-en-noun-AQBYtLk0",
      "links": [
        [
          "attractive",
          "attractive"
        ],
        [
          "male",
          "male"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(countable, UK, Australia, New Zealand, slang) An attractive person (normally male)."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "Adonis"
        },
        {
          "word": "beefcake"
        },
        {
          "word": "hunk"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Australia",
        "New-Zealand",
        "UK",
        "countable",
        "slang",
        "usually"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "0 3 2 4 77 14",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "slang: attractive male",
          "word": "adonis"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 3 2 4 77 14",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "slang: attractive male",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "heißer Typ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 3 2 4 77 14",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "slang: attractive male",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "gato"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 3 2 4 77 14",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "slang: attractive male",
          "tags": [
            "Spain",
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "guaperas"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 3 2 4 77 14",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "slang: attractive male",
          "tags": [
            "Latin-America",
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "churro"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 3 2 4 77 14",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "slang: attractive male",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "guapetón"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "British English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "2 11 8 11 22 21 12 7 6",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English blends",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Debra Hyde, “Kidnapped”, in Violet Blue, editor, Lust: Erotic Fantasies for Women, ReadHowYouWant, published 2010, page 188",
          "text": "It was runny stuff and, as she felt Brain loosen his hold on the drawstrings, Cackle's spunk dripped onto the shelf of her chin.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Semen."
      ],
      "id": "en-spunk-en-noun-QrGgcU0K",
      "links": [
        [
          "Semen",
          "semen"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(uncountable, chiefly UK, vulgar, slang) Semen."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "slang",
        "uncountable",
        "usually",
        "vulgar"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "0 3 2 2 11 83",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "sperma",
          "sense": "slang: semen",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "сперма"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 3 2 2 11 83",
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "slang: semen",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "escorreguda"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 3 2 2 11 83",
          "code": "et",
          "lang": "Estonian",
          "sense": "slang: semen",
          "word": "jobi"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 3 2 2 11 83",
          "code": "et",
          "lang": "Estonian",
          "sense": "slang: semen",
          "word": "pauk"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 3 2 2 11 83",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "slang: semen",
          "word": "mälli"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 3 2 2 11 83",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "slang: semen",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "foutre"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 3 2 2 11 83",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "slang: semen",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Soße"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 3 2 2 11 83",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "slang: semen",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Wichse"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 3 2 2 11 83",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "slang: semen",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Saft"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 3 2 2 11 83",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "slang: semen",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "sborra"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 3 2 2 11 83",
          "code": "gv",
          "lang": "Manx",
          "sense": "slang: semen",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "sheel"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 3 2 2 11 83",
          "code": "nap",
          "lang": "Neapolitan",
          "sense": "slang: semen",
          "word": "sfaccimma"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 3 2 2 11 83",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "slang: semen",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "porra"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 3 2 2 11 83",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "slang: semen",
          "word": "gozo"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 3 2 2 11 83",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "slang: semen",
          "word": "gala"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 3 2 2 11 83",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "konča",
          "sense": "slang: semen",
          "word": "конча"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 3 2 2 11 83",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "slang: semen",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "leche"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 3 2 2 11 83",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "slang: semen",
          "tags": [
            "Spain",
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "lefa"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 3 2 2 11 83",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "slang: semen",
          "tags": [
            "Mexico",
            "colloquial",
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "mecos"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 3 2 2 11 83",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "slang: semen",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "sagge"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 3 2 2 11 83",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "slang: semen",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "sarre"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/spʌŋk/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ʌŋk"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-spunk.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/67/En-us-spunk.ogg/En-us-spunk.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/67/En-us-spunk.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-au-spunk.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a2/En-au-spunk.ogg/En-au-spunk.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a2/En-au-spunk.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "spunk"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "spark",
        "3": "funk",
        "nocap": "1",
        "t2": "spark",
        "tr2": "obsolete"
      },
      "expansion": "blend of spark + funk (obsolete, “spark”)",
      "name": "blend"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "spunck"
      },
      "expansion": "spunck",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "mga",
        "3": "sponc"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle Irish sponc",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "spongia",
        "t": "sponge"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin spongia (“sponge”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "funk",
        "3": "Funk",
        "4": "spark, touchwood"
      },
      "expansion": "Funk (“spark, touchwood”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "funke"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English funke",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "fonke",
        "3": "",
        "4": "spark"
      },
      "expansion": "fonke (“spark”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "*funca",
        "4": "",
        "5": "spark"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English *funca (“spark”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "gmw-pro",
        "3": "*funkō"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *funkō",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "gem-pro",
        "3": "*funkô",
        "4": "",
        "5": "spark"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *funkô (“spark”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*(s)peng-",
        "t": "to shine"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *(s)peng- (“to shine”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gml",
        "2": "funke"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle Low German funke",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gml",
        "2": "fanke",
        "3": "",
        "4": "spark"
      },
      "expansion": "fanke (“spark”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "dum",
        "2": "vonke",
        "3": "",
        "4": "spark"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle Dutch vonke (“spark”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "goh",
        "2": "funcho"
      },
      "expansion": "Old High German funcho",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "goh",
        "2": "funko",
        "3": "",
        "4": "spark"
      },
      "expansion": "funko (“spark”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "Funke",
        "3": "",
        "4": "spark"
      },
      "expansion": "German Funke (“spark”)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "1530, blend of spark + funk (obsolete, “spark”). Also, merging with spunck, 1582, ultimately from Middle Irish sponc, from Latin spongia (“sponge”).\nFunk (“spark, touchwood”) is from Middle English funke, fonke (“spark”), from Old English *funca (“spark”), from Proto-West Germanic *funkō, from Proto-Germanic *funkô (“spark”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peng- (“to shine”), and is akin to Middle Low German funke, fanke (“spark”), Middle Dutch vonke (“spark”), Old High German funcho, funko (“spark”), German Funke (“spark”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "spunks",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spunking",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spunked",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spunked",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "spunk (third-person singular simple present spunks, present participle spunking, simple past and past participle spunked)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "2 11 8 11 22 21 12 7 6",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English blends",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To catch fire; flame up."
      ],
      "id": "en-spunk-en-verb-WGwYjiFD",
      "links": [
        [
          "catch fire",
          "catch fire"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, obsolete) To catch fire; flame up."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "2 2 3 2 28 12 0 49 3",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Sex",
          "orig": "en:Sex",
          "parents": [
            "All topics",
            "Reproduction",
            "Fundamental",
            "Life",
            "Nature"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "He spunked into the condom.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To ejaculate."
      ],
      "id": "en-spunk-en-verb-rvCEwRlu",
      "links": [
        [
          "ejaculate",
          "ejaculate"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, slang, vulgar) To ejaculate."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive",
        "slang",
        "vulgar"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "6 91 3",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "slang: ejaculate semen",
          "word": "sagga"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "6 91 3",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "slang: ejaculate semen",
          "word": "sarra"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "6 91 3",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "slang: ejaculate semen",
          "word": "satsa"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "To waste (money etc.)."
      ],
      "id": "en-spunk-en-verb-GasxHTcT",
      "links": [
        [
          "waste",
          "waste"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, slang, vulgar) To waste (money etc.)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang",
        "transitive",
        "vulgar"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/spʌŋk/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ʌŋk"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-spunk.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/67/En-us-spunk.ogg/En-us-spunk.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/67/En-us-spunk.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-au-spunk.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a2/En-au-spunk.ogg/En-au-spunk.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a2/En-au-spunk.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "spunk"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English 1-syllable words",
    "English blends",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms derived from Latin",
    "English terms derived from Middle English",
    "English terms derived from Middle Irish",
    "English terms derived from Old English",
    "English terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
    "English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
    "English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "English verbs",
    "Rhymes:English/ʌŋk",
    "Rhymes:English/ʌŋk/1 syllable",
    "en:Bodily fluids",
    "en:Sex"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "spunkful"
    },
    {
      "word": "spunkless"
    },
    {
      "word": "spunklike"
    },
    {
      "word": "spunk-water"
    },
    {
      "word": "spunky"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ga",
            "2": "sponc",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Irish: sponc",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Irish: sponc"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "spark",
        "3": "funk",
        "nocap": "1",
        "t2": "spark",
        "tr2": "obsolete"
      },
      "expansion": "blend of spark + funk (obsolete, “spark”)",
      "name": "blend"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "spunck"
      },
      "expansion": "spunck",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "mga",
        "3": "sponc"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle Irish sponc",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "spongia",
        "t": "sponge"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin spongia (“sponge”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "funk",
        "3": "Funk",
        "4": "spark, touchwood"
      },
      "expansion": "Funk (“spark, touchwood”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "funke"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English funke",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "fonke",
        "3": "",
        "4": "spark"
      },
      "expansion": "fonke (“spark”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "*funca",
        "4": "",
        "5": "spark"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English *funca (“spark”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "gmw-pro",
        "3": "*funkō"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *funkō",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "gem-pro",
        "3": "*funkô",
        "4": "",
        "5": "spark"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *funkô (“spark”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*(s)peng-",
        "t": "to shine"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *(s)peng- (“to shine”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gml",
        "2": "funke"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle Low German funke",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gml",
        "2": "fanke",
        "3": "",
        "4": "spark"
      },
      "expansion": "fanke (“spark”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "dum",
        "2": "vonke",
        "3": "",
        "4": "spark"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle Dutch vonke (“spark”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "goh",
        "2": "funcho"
      },
      "expansion": "Old High German funcho",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "goh",
        "2": "funko",
        "3": "",
        "4": "spark"
      },
      "expansion": "funko (“spark”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "Funke",
        "3": "",
        "4": "spark"
      },
      "expansion": "German Funke (“spark”)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "1530, blend of spark + funk (obsolete, “spark”). Also, merging with spunck, 1582, ultimately from Middle Irish sponc, from Latin spongia (“sponge”).\nFunk (“spark, touchwood”) is from Middle English funke, fonke (“spark”), from Old English *funca (“spark”), from Proto-West Germanic *funkō, from Proto-Germanic *funkô (“spark”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peng- (“to shine”), and is akin to Middle Low German funke, fanke (“spark”), Middle Dutch vonke (“spark”), Old High German funcho, funko (“spark”), German Funke (“spark”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "spunks",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-",
        "2": "s"
      },
      "expansion": "spunk (usually uncountable, plural spunks)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English terms with obsolete senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A spark."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "spark",
          "spark#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(countable, obsolete) A spark."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "obsolete",
        "usually"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English uncountable nouns"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Touchwood; tinder."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Touchwood",
          "touchwood"
        ],
        [
          "tinder",
          "tinder"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(uncountable) Touchwood; tinder."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Scottish English"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1829, Society for Relief of the Destitute Sick (Edinburgh), Report, p. 7",
          "text": "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."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1843, John Wilson, John Gibson Lockhart, William Maginn, James Hogg, The Noctes Ambrosianæ of “Blackwood”, volume IV, page 396",
          "text": "“Spunks — spunks — spunks — who will buy my spunks?” — cried an errant voice with a beseeching earnestness[…].",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A piece of tinder, sometimes impregnated with sulphur; a match."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sulphur",
          "sulphur"
        ],
        [
          "match",
          "match"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(countable, chiefly Scotland, obsolete) A piece of tinder, sometimes impregnated with sulphur; a match."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Scotland",
        "countable",
        "obsolete",
        "usually"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English uncountable nouns"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1920 August, Edward Leonard, \"Old Zeke′s Mule\", Boys′ Life, p. 55",
          "text": "“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.”"
        },
        {
          "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."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Courage; spirit; mettle; determination."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Courage",
          "courage"
        ],
        [
          "spirit",
          "spirit"
        ],
        [
          "mettle",
          "mettle"
        ],
        [
          "determination",
          "determination"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(uncountable) Courage; spirit; mettle; determination."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Australian English",
        "British English",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English slang",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "New Zealand English"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2005, Sue Austin, Women′s Aggressive Fantasies: A Post-Jungian Exploration of Self-Hatred, Love and Agency, UK: Routledge, page 166",
          "text": "We are welcomed by 20 year old spunks, as we make a last valiant attempt with our bodies - gasp, gasp - and try to get back in shape.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An attractive person (normally male)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "attractive",
          "attractive"
        ],
        [
          "male",
          "male"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(countable, UK, Australia, New Zealand, slang) An attractive person (normally male)."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "Adonis"
        },
        {
          "word": "beefcake"
        },
        {
          "word": "hunk"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Australia",
        "New-Zealand",
        "UK",
        "countable",
        "slang",
        "usually"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "British English",
        "English slang",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "English vulgarities"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Debra Hyde, “Kidnapped”, in Violet Blue, editor, Lust: Erotic Fantasies for Women, ReadHowYouWant, published 2010, page 188",
          "text": "It was runny stuff and, as she felt Brain loosen his hold on the drawstrings, Cackle's spunk dripped onto the shelf of her chin.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Semen."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Semen",
          "semen"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(uncountable, chiefly UK, vulgar, slang) Semen."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "slang",
        "uncountable",
        "usually",
        "vulgar"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/spʌŋk/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ʌŋk"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-spunk.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/67/En-us-spunk.ogg/En-us-spunk.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/67/En-us-spunk.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-au-spunk.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a2/En-au-spunk.ogg/En-au-spunk.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a2/En-au-spunk.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "kuraž",
      "sense": "courage; spirit; mettle; determination",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "кураж"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "courage; spirit; mettle; determination",
      "word": "moed"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "courage; spirit; mettle; determination",
      "word": "vastberadenheid"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "courage; spirit; mettle; determination",
      "word": "levendigheid"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "courage; spirit; mettle; determination",
      "word": "sisu"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "courage; spirit; mettle; determination",
      "word": "päättäväisyys"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "courage; spirit; mettle; determination",
      "word": "tahdonvoima"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "courage; spirit; mettle; determination",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "entrain"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "courage; spirit; mettle; determination",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "vivacité"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "courage; spirit; mettle; determination",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "vitalité"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "courage; spirit; mettle; determination",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Courage"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "courage; spirit; mettle; determination",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Mumm"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "courage; spirit; mettle; determination",
      "word": "bátorság"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "courage; spirit; mettle; determination",
      "word": "curaj"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "otvaga",
      "sense": "courage; spirit; mettle; determination",
      "word": "отвага"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "courage; spirit; mettle; determination",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "odvaha"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "courage; spirit; mettle; determination",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "verva"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "courage; spirit; mettle; determination",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "agallas"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "slang: attractive male",
      "word": "adonis"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "slang: attractive male",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "heißer Typ"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "slang: attractive male",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "gato"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "slang: attractive male",
      "tags": [
        "Spain",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "guaperas"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "slang: attractive male",
      "tags": [
        "Latin-America",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "churro"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "slang: attractive male",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "guapetón"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "sperma",
      "sense": "slang: semen",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "сперма"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "slang: semen",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "escorreguda"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "slang: semen",
      "word": "jobi"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "slang: semen",
      "word": "pauk"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "slang: semen",
      "word": "mälli"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "slang: semen",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "foutre"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "slang: semen",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Soße"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "slang: semen",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Wichse"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "slang: semen",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Saft"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "slang: semen",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "sborra"
    },
    {
      "code": "gv",
      "lang": "Manx",
      "sense": "slang: semen",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "sheel"
    },
    {
      "code": "nap",
      "lang": "Neapolitan",
      "sense": "slang: semen",
      "word": "sfaccimma"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "slang: semen",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "porra"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "slang: semen",
      "word": "gozo"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "slang: semen",
      "word": "gala"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "konča",
      "sense": "slang: semen",
      "word": "конча"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "slang: semen",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "leche"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "slang: semen",
      "tags": [
        "Spain",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "lefa"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "slang: semen",
      "tags": [
        "Mexico",
        "colloquial",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "mecos"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "slang: semen",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "sagge"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "slang: semen",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "sarre"
    }
  ],
  "word": "spunk"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English 1-syllable words",
    "English blends",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms derived from Latin",
    "English terms derived from Middle English",
    "English terms derived from Middle Irish",
    "English terms derived from Old English",
    "English terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
    "English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
    "English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "English verbs",
    "Rhymes:English/ʌŋk",
    "Rhymes:English/ʌŋk/1 syllable",
    "en:Bodily fluids",
    "en:Sex"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "spark",
        "3": "funk",
        "nocap": "1",
        "t2": "spark",
        "tr2": "obsolete"
      },
      "expansion": "blend of spark + funk (obsolete, “spark”)",
      "name": "blend"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "spunck"
      },
      "expansion": "spunck",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "mga",
        "3": "sponc"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle Irish sponc",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "spongia",
        "t": "sponge"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin spongia (“sponge”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "funk",
        "3": "Funk",
        "4": "spark, touchwood"
      },
      "expansion": "Funk (“spark, touchwood”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "funke"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English funke",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "fonke",
        "3": "",
        "4": "spark"
      },
      "expansion": "fonke (“spark”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "*funca",
        "4": "",
        "5": "spark"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English *funca (“spark”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "gmw-pro",
        "3": "*funkō"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *funkō",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "gem-pro",
        "3": "*funkô",
        "4": "",
        "5": "spark"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *funkô (“spark”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*(s)peng-",
        "t": "to shine"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *(s)peng- (“to shine”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gml",
        "2": "funke"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle Low German funke",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gml",
        "2": "fanke",
        "3": "",
        "4": "spark"
      },
      "expansion": "fanke (“spark”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "dum",
        "2": "vonke",
        "3": "",
        "4": "spark"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle Dutch vonke (“spark”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "goh",
        "2": "funcho"
      },
      "expansion": "Old High German funcho",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "goh",
        "2": "funko",
        "3": "",
        "4": "spark"
      },
      "expansion": "funko (“spark”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "Funke",
        "3": "",
        "4": "spark"
      },
      "expansion": "German Funke (“spark”)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "1530, blend of spark + funk (obsolete, “spark”). Also, merging with spunck, 1582, ultimately from Middle Irish sponc, from Latin spongia (“sponge”).\nFunk (“spark, touchwood”) is from Middle English funke, fonke (“spark”), from Old English *funca (“spark”), from Proto-West Germanic *funkō, from Proto-Germanic *funkô (“spark”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peng- (“to shine”), and is akin to Middle Low German funke, fanke (“spark”), Middle Dutch vonke (“spark”), Old High German funcho, funko (“spark”), German Funke (“spark”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "spunks",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spunking",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spunked",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spunked",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "spunk (third-person singular simple present spunks, present participle spunking, simple past and past participle spunked)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English terms with obsolete senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To catch fire; flame up."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "catch fire",
          "catch fire"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, obsolete) To catch fire; flame up."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English slang",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English vulgarities"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "He spunked into the condom.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To ejaculate."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "ejaculate",
          "ejaculate"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, slang, vulgar) To ejaculate."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive",
        "slang",
        "vulgar"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English slang",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English vulgarities"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To waste (money etc.)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "waste",
          "waste"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, slang, vulgar) To waste (money etc.)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang",
        "transitive",
        "vulgar"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/spʌŋk/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ʌŋk"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-spunk.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/67/En-us-spunk.ogg/En-us-spunk.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/67/En-us-spunk.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-au-spunk.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a2/En-au-spunk.ogg/En-au-spunk.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a2/En-au-spunk.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "slang: ejaculate semen",
      "word": "sagga"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "slang: ejaculate semen",
      "word": "sarra"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "slang: ejaculate semen",
      "word": "satsa"
    }
  ],
  "word": "spunk"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.