English Dictionary

spunk

IPA（発音記号）

/spʌŋk/

名詞

可算名詞 廃用 通常 不可算名詞 スコットランド英語 オーストラリア英語 ニュージーランド英語 イギリス英語 俗語 卑語

(countable, obsolete) A spark. / (uncountable) Touchwood; tinder. / (countable, chiefly Scotland, obsolete) A piece of tinder, sometimes impregnated with sulphur; a match.

日本語の意味

（可算名詞、古語）火花 / （不可算名詞）着火用途の木片や乾いた物質（火種） / （可算名詞、主にスコットランド、古語）硫黄を含む場合がある火種、またはマッチ

He struck flint and a single spunk leapt out, setting the dry tinder alight.

彼は火打ち石を打つと、一つの火花が飛び出して乾いた焚きつけに火をつけた。

意味（1）

(countable, obsolete) A spark.

… That's none such an entirely bad little man, yon little man with the red head, said Alan. He has some spunks of decency.

意味（2）

(uncountable) Touchwood; tinder.

Spunk, or Touch-wood prepared, might perhaps make it Russet: and some, as Beringuccio affirmeth, have promised to make it Red.

意味（3）

(countable, chiefly Scotland, obsolete) A piece of tinder, sometimes impregnated with sulphur; a match.

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.

意味（4）

(uncountable) Courage; spirit; mettle; determination.

“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.”

意味（5）

(countable, UK, Australia, New Zealand, slang) An attractive person (normally male).

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.

意味（6）

(uncountable, chiefly UK, vulgar, slang) Semen.

Between spunk-stained sheet and odorous whim / Camera eye-flick-shudder within

spunks （ plural ）