spunk
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
(countable, obsolete, usually)A spark.
- 2.
(uncountable, usually)Touchwood; tinder.
- 3.
(UK, countable, obsolete, usually)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.
... 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.
Đồng nghĩa: taper
- 4.
(Scotland, countable, obsolete, usually)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.
Đồng nghĩa: match
- 5.
(uncountable, usually)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.
“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.”
Douglas: You've got spunk. And balls. And I like that in a woman.
- 6.
(Australia, New Zealand, UK, countable, slang, usually)An attractive person; a good-looker.
Đồng nghĩa: Adonis, beefcake, hunk
- 7.
(UK, slang, uncountable, usually, vulgar)(uncountable, chiefly UK, vulgar, slang) Semen.
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verb- 1.
(intransitive, obsolete)To catch fire; flame up.
Đồng nghĩa: go up in flames, catch on fire, catch fire, combust, conflagrate, fire, go up in flames, go up in smoke, ignite, light, spunk, take fire
- 2.
(intransitive, slang, vulgar)To ejaculate.
He spunked into the condom.
Đồng nghĩa: cum, blow one's load, blow one's wad, blow a nut, breed, bust, bust a nut, come, cream, cum, ejaculate, explode, get off, go off, jizz, juice, nut, pop, shoot a rope, shoot off, shoot one's load, shoot one's wad, skeet, spray one's shorts, sprog, spoof, splooge, spooge, spunk, spurt
- 3.
(slang, transitive, vulgar)To waste (money etc.).
Đồng nghĩa: fritter, splurge, squander
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1530, spark funk.