Spunk
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Spunk can have several meanings:
- Courage or spirit (from 1773), although this usage is now rather old-fashioned
- Ejected Semen, colloquially (British English)
- Used as a verb, to spunk something (away, or up the wall) means to waste or squander in colloquial British English
- An attractive person (normally male) in Australian English
- In Astrid Lindgren's children's book Pippi Longstocking. Pippi "makes up" the word one morning and then spends the rest of the day with her friends trying to find out what a "spunk" is. Of course nobody they ask knows, and so they don't find out.
- In 1971, the Danish sweets company Galle & Jessen marketed a new licorice candy and chose the name "Spunk" for it in reference to Pippi Longstocking.
- Spunk Library is an anarchist collective dedicated to documenting anarchist publications and making them widely available through the Internet
- Spunk is the pseudonym of the ASCII artist otherwise known as Joan Stark.
External link
- Online Etymology Dictionary: (http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?l=s&p=37) spunk