spunky
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈspʌŋki/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ʌŋki
Adjective
spunky (comparative spunkier, superlative spunkiest)
- (US) Spirited or plucky.
- (UK, slang) Pertaining to or like spunk (semen).
- 2016 May 5, “Thinking He's Hard (Little T Reply)”, performed by Soph Aspin:
- I'm not the kind of girl you want to come across / Yo, it's Josh T with his spunky sauce
- (UK, slang) Stained with semen.
- (Australia, slang) Of a person, stunningly beautiful; good-looking.
Noun
spunky (plural spunkys or spunkies)
- (Australia, slang, dated) A good-looking person.
- 1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 83:
- But every Friday night up at the Harbord Diggers disco he'd be holding court, three or four spunkys hanging off each arm[.]