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spunk
English
Etymology
1530, blend of spark +? funk (obsolete, “spark”). Also, merging with spunck, 1582, ultimately from Old Irish sponc, from Latin spongia (“sponge”).
Funk (“spark, touchwood”) is from Middle English funke, fonke (“spark”), from Old English *funce (“spark”), *fanca, from Proto-Germanic *funkô, *fankô (“spark”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peng-, *(s)pheng- (“to shine”), and is akin to Middle Low German funke, fanke (“spark”), Middle Dutch vonke (“spark”), Old High German funcho, funko (“spark”), German Funke (“spark”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sp??k/
- Rhymes: -??k
Noun
spunk (usually uncountable, plural spunks)
- (countable, obsolete) A spark.
- (uncountable) Touchwood; tinder.
- 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, II.5:
- Spunk, or Touch-wood prepared, might perhaps make it Russet: and some, as Beringuccio affirmeth, have promised to make it Red.
- 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, XXII:
- A piece of Touch-wood (which is a kind of Jews-ear, or Mushrom, growing here in England also, on several sorts of Trees, such as Elders, Maples, Willows, &c. and is commonly call'd by the name of Spunk […]).
- 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, II.5:
- (countable, chiefly Scotland, obsolete) A piece of tinder, sometimes impregnated with sulphur; a match.
- 1829, Society for Relief of the Destitute Sick (Edinburgh), Report, page 7,
- 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.
- 1843, John Wilson, John Gibson Lockhart, William Maginn, James Hogg, The Noctes Ambrosianæ of “Blackwood”, Volume IV, page 396,
- “Spunks — spunks — spunks — who will buy my spunks?” — cried an errant voice with a beseeching earnestness […] .
- 1829, Society for Relief of the Destitute Sick (Edinburgh), Report, page 7,
- (uncountable) Courage; spirit; mettle; determination.
- 1920 August, Edward Leonard, Old Zeke?s Mule, Boys? Life, 55,
- “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.”
- 1991, Lindsey Hanks, (copyright Linda Chesnutt, Georgia Pierce), Long Texas Night, Zebra Books, US, page 26,
- “You've got spunk, missy, I?ll have to say that for you. Maybe with your spunk and my good looks we can get this place in shape again.”
- It was Sarah?s turn to laugh.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:spunk.
- 1920 August, Edward Leonard, Old Zeke?s Mule, Boys? Life, 55,
- (countable, Britain, Australia, New Zealand, slang) An attractive person (normally male).
- Synonyms: Adonis, beefcake, hunk
- 2005, Sue Austin, Women?s Aggressive Fantasies: A Post-Jungian Exploration of Self-Hatred, Love and Agency, Routledge, UK, page 166,
- 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.
- (uncountable, chiefly Britain, vulgar, slang) Semen.
- 2007, Debra Hyde, Kidnapped, Violet Blue (editor), Lust: Erotic Fantasies for Women, 2010, ReadHowYouWant, page 188,
- It was runny stuff and, as she felt Brain loosen his hold on the drawstrings, Cackle's spunk dripped onto the shelf of her chin.
- 2007, Debra Hyde, Kidnapped, Violet Blue (editor), Lust: Erotic Fantasies for Women, 2010, ReadHowYouWant, page 188,
Derived terms
- spunky
Translations
Verb
spunk (third-person singular simple present spunks, present participle spunking, simple past and past participle spunked)
- (intransitive, obsolete) To catch fire; flame up.
- (slang, vulgar) To ejaculate.
Anagrams
- punks
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stomach
English
Alternative forms
- stomack (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English stomak, from Old French estomac, from Latin stomachus, from Ancient Greek ???????? (stómakhos), from ????? (stóma, “mouth”).
Displaced native Middle English bouk, buc (“belly, stomach”) from Old English b?c (“belly, stomach”); largely displaced Middle English mawe, maghe, ma?e (“stomach, maw”) from Old English maga (“stomach, maw”). More at bucket and maw.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?st?m?k/
Noun
stomach (countable and uncountable, plural stomachs)
- An organ in animals that stores food in the process of digestion.
- (informal) The belly.
- Synonyms: belly, abdomen, tummy, (obsolete) bouk, gut, guts, (archaic) maw
- (uncountable, obsolete) Pride, haughtiness.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vii:
- Sterne was his looke, and full of stomacke vaine, / His portaunce terrible, and stature tall […].
- 1613, William Shakespeare, The Life of King Henry the Eighth, IV. ii. 34:
- He was a man / Of an unbounded stomach, ever ranking / Himself with princes;
- This sort of crying […] proceeding from pride, obstinacy, and stomach, the will, where the fault lies, must be bent.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vii:
- (obsolete) Appetite.
- 1591, William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors, I. ii. 50:
- You come not home because you have no stomach. / You have no stomach, having broke your fast.
- 1595, George Peele, The Old Wives’ Tale, The Malone Society Reprints, 1908, lines 920-922,[1]
- HOST. How say you sir, doo you please to sit downe?
- EUMENIDES. Hostes I thanke you, I haue no great stomack.
- , II.ii.1.2:
- If after seven hours' tarrying he shall have no stomach, let him defer his meal, or eat very little at his ordinary time of repast.
- 1591, William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors, I. ii. 50:
- (figuratively) Desire, appetite (for something abstract).
Derived terms
Related terms
- stomachic
- stomachal
Translations
Verb
stomach (third-person singular simple present stomachs, present participle stomaching, simple past and past participle stomached)
- (transitive) To tolerate (something), emotionally, physically, or mentally; to stand or handle something.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To be angry.
- 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie
- Let a man, though never so justly, oppose himself unto them that are disordered in their ways; and what one amongst them commonly doth not stomach at such contradiction, storm at reproof, and hate such as would reform them?
- 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie
- (obsolete, transitive) To resent; to remember with anger; to dislike.
- 1607, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra, III. iv. 12:
- O, my good lord, / Believe not all; or, if you must believe, / Stomach not all.
- 1607, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra, III. iv. 12:
- (obsolete, transitive) To turn the stomach of; to sicken or repel.
Synonyms
- (to tolerate): brook, put up with; See also Thesaurus:tolerate
- (to be angry):
- (to resent): See also Thesaurus:dislike
Derived terms
- stomachable
- unstomachable
Translations
Anagrams
- Satchmo
Middle English
Noun
stomach
- Alternative form of stomak
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