spunk
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Lorelai’s spunk is presented as a secret to her success: Having been a teen mom, she drips with “up by your bootstraps” energy.
From Slate ● Apr. 14, 2025
“Coastal Funk” brings together work by Robert Arneson, one of funk’s godfathers, and contemporary artists keeping the spunk of funk alive.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 24, 2024
Indeed, Kansara plays Ria with spunk and a youthful vigor that makes it hard not to reminisce on one's own adolescent years.
From Salon ● Apr. 29, 2023
She says, “That’s where you get your spunk and your character,” even though I didn’t grow up there.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 16, 2023
Margot and Peter are always saying to me, “If I had your spunk and your strength, if I had your drive and unflagging energy, I could...!”
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
He looked hard at me wi' a pair o' een that glowed like twa spunks, and then he says, says he: "You've been born in these pairts, I understan'?"
From The Mystery of Cloomber by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir
An' the haill apotheck lay in spails, As the grey mear warsled free; An' when auld Jock Smairt saw the fashion o' his cairt: "Wha's seekin' ony spunks?" says he.
From The Auld Doctor and other Poems and Songs in Scots by Rorie, David
The Advocate, who is not without some spunks of a remainder decency, has wrung your life-safe out of Simon and the Duke.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 11 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
She spunks up and her eyes sparkles whenever she thinks about that there tobaccer trust.
From Danny's Own Story by Marquis, Don
Then some person invented strips of wood dipped in sulphur and called "spunks."
From Home Life in Colonial Days by Earle, Alice Morse
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