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
The man had character and spunk and Bloom had considered him an attractive original, had always known he was the real McCoy.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
But I ain't got to the wonders none as yet,' reemonstrates the Colonel, who spunks up a bit peevish for him.
From Wolfville Nights by Alfred Henry Lewis
The Advocate, who is not without some spunks of a remainder decency, has wrung your life-safe out of Symon and the Duke.
Then some person invented strips of wood dipped in sulphur and called "spunks."
From Home Life in Colonial Days by Alice Morse Earle
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 Robert Louis Stevenson
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 David Rorie
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