SPUNK
\spˈʌŋk], \spˈʌŋk], \s_p_ˈʌ_ŋ_k]\
Definitions of SPUNK
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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Wood that readily takes fire; touchwood; also, a kind of tinder made from a species of fungus; punk; amadou.
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Touchwood; punk; colloquially, mettle, spirit, or pluck; also, anger.
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To flame up; colloquially, to show spirit or quick temper.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Touchwood; tinder; a kind of tinder made from a species of fungus; "Spunk, or touchwood prepared."-Sir T. Browne: a quick, ardent temper; mettle; spirit; pluck; "Thy girl, perhaps a lass of spunk."-Wolcot; "Men of spunk, and spirit, and power, both of mind and body."-Prof. Wilson: a very small fire; a fiery spark or small flame; also, a lucifer-match.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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