spunk
n. 精神, 勇气, 怒意, 引火柴
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1.
A spark.
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2.
Touchwood; tinder.
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A piece of tinder, sometimes impregnated with sulphur; a match.
苏格兰 可数 废旧 不可数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.
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4.
Courage; spirit; mettle; determination.
不可数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.
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An attractive person; a good-looker.
澳大利亚 新西兰 英国 可数 俚语 不可数 -
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Semen.
英国 俚语 不可数 粗俗
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1.
To catch fire; flame up.
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To ejaculate.
不及物 俚语 粗俗He spunked into the condom.
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3.
To waste (money etc.).
俚语 及物 粗俗
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1530, blend of spark + funk (obsolete, “spark”). 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”).
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