spunk

Definition of Spunk in English :

material for starting a fire

2. heart, mettle, nerve, spunk

the courage to carry on

Example Sentences:
'he kept fighting on pure spunk'
'you haven't got the heart for baseball'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Spunk

noun

1. informal

courage or spirit

2. British a vulgar slang word for semen

3.

touchwood or tinder, esp originally made from various spongy types of fungus

4. Australian and New Zealand informal

a person, esp male, who is sexually attractive

noun

1.

a kind of wood or fungus that smolders when ignited; punk

2. Informal

courage; spirit

n.

1. Informal Spirit; pluck.

2. Punk, touchwood, or other tinder.

3. Vulgar Slang Ejaculated semen.