Spunk can have several meanings:

• Courage or spirit (from 1773), although this usage is now rather old-fashioned
• Ejected Semen, colloquially (British English)
• Used as a verb, to spunk something (away, or up the wall) means to waste or squander in colloquial British English
• An attractive person (normally male) in Australian English
• In Astrid Lindgren's children's book Pippi Longstocking. Pippi "makes up" the word one morning and then spends the rest of the day with her friends trying to find out what a "spunk" is. Of course nobody they ask knows, and so they don't find out.
• In 1971, the German sweets company Galle & Jessen marketed a new licorice candy and chose the name "Spunk" for it in reference to Pippi Longstocking.
• Spunk Library is an anarchist collective dedicated to documenting anarchist publications and making them widely available through the Internet
• Spunk is the pseudonym of the ASCII artist otherwise known as Joan Stark.

External link

• Online Etymology Dictionary: spunk