spunk

• "[...] That's none such an entirely bad little man, yon little man with the red head," said Alan. "He has some spunks of decency." - 1886 May 1 – July 31, Robert Louis Stevenson, “I Talk with Alan in the Wood of...
• He […] took from his waistcoatpocket a nickel tinderbox, sprang it open too, and, having lit his cigarette, held the flaming spunk towards Stephen in the shell of his hands. - 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 1]”,...

• Spunk, or Touch-wood prepared, might perhaps make it Russet: and some, as Beringuccio affirmeth, have promised to make it Red. - 1650, Thomas Browne, chapter II, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […]...
• A piece of Touch-wood (which is a kind of Jews-ear, or Mushrom, growing here in England also, on several sorts of Trees, such as Elders, Maples, Willows, &c. and is commonly call'd by the name of Spunk[…]). - 1665,...

• 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. - 1829,...
• “Spunks — spunks — spunks — who will buy my spunks?” — cried an errant voice with a beseeching earnestness[…]. - 1843, John Wilson, John Gibson Lockhart, William Maginn, James Hogg, The Noctes Ambrosianæ of “Blackwood”,...
• ... 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...

Synonyms: taper

• ... 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...

Synonyms: match

• 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...
• “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.” - 1920 August, Edward...
• Douglas: You've got spunk. And balls. And I like that in a woman. - 2007 September 28, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 2, Episode 6

• I got a transfer in my bank job and on 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. - 1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan...
• We are welcomed by 20 year old spunks, as we make a last valiant attempt with our bodies - gasp, gasp - and try to get back in shape. - 2005, Sue Austin, Women′s Aggressive Fantasies: A Post-Jungian Exploration of...

Synonyms: Adonis beefcake hunk

• Curse the blasted, jelly-boned swines[...] the sniveling, dribbling, dithering palsied pulse-less lot that make up England today. They've got white of egg in their veins, and their spunk is that watery it's a marvel...
• Between spunk-stained sheet and odorous whim Camera eye-flick-shudder within - 1980, “In the Flat Field”, in In the Flat Field, performed by Bauhaus:
• It was runny stuff and, as she felt Brain loosen his hold on the drawstrings, Cackle's spunk dripped onto the shelf of her chin. - 2007, Debra Hyde, “Kidnapped”, in Violet Blue, editor, Lust: Erotic Fantasies for Women,...

Synonyms: go up in flames catch on fire catch fire combust conflagrate fire go up in smoke ignite light spunk take fire

• He spunked into the condom.

Synonyms: cum blow one's load blow one's wad blow a nut breed bust bust a nut come cream 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

Synonyms: fritter splurge squander