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spunk
noun- mettle, courage UK, 1774
A word forever associated in the US with actress Mary Tyler Moore; in the initial episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show in 1970, Moore’s boss Lou Grant assesses her–“You’ve got spunk. I hate spunk!”. - General Peckem blessed the fates that had sent him a weakling for a subordinate. A man of spunk would have been unthinkable. — Joseph Heller, Catch 22, p. 331, 1961
- And it takes a lot of spunk and devotion to be a chaplain. — Darryl Ponicsan, The Last Detail, p. 45, 1970
- But then talking to her after changed his mind, seeing this was a good-looking girl up close with a cute figure. She had spunk, too. — Elmore Leonard, Maximum Bob, p. 43, 1991
- Imagine gatecrashing that gaff [...] they had more spunk than Monica Lewinsky’s dress. — Dave Courtney, Stop the Ride I Want to Get Off, p. 396, 1999
- semen UK, 1888
- He’s spewing his spunk deep inside her seething snatch! — Adam Film World, p. 60, 1977
- The booth smelled of spunk[.] — Richard Price, Clockers, p. 393, 1992
- An overweight, faggy-looking Filipino in his early thirties–who was the “floater” at Annabel’s gang bang–wipes up any and all spunk sprayed upon Jasmin today. — Anthony Petkovich, The X Factory, p. 190, 1997
- It’s highly unlikely your reaction to his spunk had anything to do with curry. — Dan Savage, Savage Love, p. 230, 1998
- [M]e dick spasming like artillery firing shells of what I know must just be spunk but which feels like me innards[.] — Niall Griffiths, Kelly + Victor, p. 91, 2002
- Missy Monroe in the closer going beyond the call of duty, taking way more than the requisite Baker’s dozen spunk blasts all over her pretty face. — Editors of Adult Video News, The AVN Guide to the 500 Greatest Adult Films of All Time, p. 26, 2005
- a very attractive person AUSTRALIA, 1978
- And Romeo sees Juliet on the balcony, and he goes, “What a spunk,” and she goes, “What a spunk[.]” — Kylie Mole (Maryanne Fahey), My Diary, p. 72, 1988
- She pursed her lips and blew him a kiss. “You big spunk.” — Robert G. Barrett, Davo’s Little Something, p. 47, 1992
- [O]n the first day on the job in the big smoke I had to share a teller’s box with a young lady called Kim, a real spunk and my future wife. — Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, p. 82, 1995
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