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Definition of Spunking
1. spunk [v] - See also: spunk
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spunking
Literary usage of Spunking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Who's who in America by Marquis Who's Who, Inc (1901)
"Contributor to newspapers and mags, on public spunking. Address: 27 W. 44th St., New
York. u fön in v Patrick William, RC archbishop; ..."
2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1896)
"*spunking. A beating or thrashing with the hands [CHEW] Spunky. Brisk, mettlesome.
No uncommon vulgarism. In 0. E. spunk is touchwood. AS spoon, femes. ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1893)
"The journey "up country" (I am spunking of southern India) was of course performed
in these days by "bullock dawk," a tedious method of progression yet not ..."
4. In Darkest Africa by Henry Morton Stanley (1890)
"Every member of the tribe seemed to have some device to suggest, and the little
boys hopped about on one leg, spunking their hips in irrepressible delight ..."
5. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1898)
"But a hero with a flawed reputation ; a hero spunking for a guinea ; a hero who
can't pay his landlady, and is obliged to let his honour out to hire, ..."
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