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spunky

[ spuhng-kee ]

adjective

spunkier, spunkiest.
  1. plucky; spirited.


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Other 51Թ Forms

  • ܲ԰i· adverb
  • ܲ԰i·Ա noun
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of spunky1

First recorded in 1780–90; spunk + -y 1
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A spunky 56-year-old, who has been homeless herself, she was lured away from a 30-year career in commercial purchasing to become a full-time outreach worker for Harbor Interfaith.

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A former Duck spared his new team a blowout with some spunky play late in the first half.

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“Then, in the ’70s and ’80s, television gave us two women journalists — still spunky but way more independent — that we could root for: Mary Tyler Moore and Murphy Brown.

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By this time, the crowd was getting into the action and expressing vocal support for the spunky fellow.

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Evil Ezekiel, meanwhile, hoards the spider peptides for himself, and 30 years later, he’s now a sort of cursed dark Spider-man, tormented by premonitions of being killed by a trio of spunky Spider-women.

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