Crossword-Solution: SPUNK
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Spunk | n. | Wood that readily takes fire; touchwood; also, a kind of tinder made from a species of fungus; punk; amadou. |
| Spunk | n. | An inflammable temper; spirit; mettle; pluck; as, a man of spunk. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SPUNK | anagram | PUNKS |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERATE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SPUNK (5)
You got to go all by yourself, to the middle of the woods, where you know there’s a spunk-water stump, and just as it’s midnight you back up against the stump and jam your hand in and say: ‘Barley-corn, barley-corn, injun-meal shorts, Spunk-water, spunk-water, swaller these warts,’ and then walk away quick, eleven steps, with your eyes shut, and then turn around three times and walk home without speaking to anybody.
Mudge next time I go by.” “So you've run off,” he continued, after a pause, “I like your spunk,--just what I should have done myself.
The trustees would not accept my resignation (indeed, they refused to consider it at all), and the congregation, when it had thought things over, apparently decided that there might be worse things in the pulpit than "the gal." It was even known to brag of what it called my "spunk," and perhaps it was this quality, rather than any other, which I most needed in that particular parish at that time.
And such a mistress! Never did cat or house have a better! “Just think; for the first time in years this old place is to know the touch of a woman's hand--and that's what it hasn't known for almost twenty years, except for those few short months six years ago when a dark-eyed girl and a little gray kitten (that was Spunk, your predecessor, you know) blew in and blew out again before we scarcely knew they were here.
There’s no a hair on ayther o’ the Weirs that hasna mair spunk and dirdum to it than what he has in his hale dwaibly body! Settin’ up his snash to me! Let him gang to the black toon where he’s mebbe wantit—birling in a curricle—wi’ pimatum on his heid—making a mess o’ himsel’ wi’ nesty hizzies—a fair disgrace!” It was impossible to hear without admiration Kirstie’s graduated disgust, as she brought forth, one after another, these somewhat baseless charges.
Quotes with SPUNK (3)
I like a bit of spunk in a lady
Step into the marketplace with some sizzle, spice, spunk and shazam!
Fireflies out on a warm summer's night, seeing the urgent, flashing, yellow-white phosphorescence below them, go crazy with desire; moths cast to the winds an enchantment potion that draws the opposite sex, wings beating hurriedly, from kilometers away; peacocks display a devastating corona of blue and green and the peahens are all aflutter; competing pollen grains extrude tiny tubes that race each other down the female flower's orifice to the waiting egg below; luminescent s…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 72 times in crossword archives (1950–2025).