Meanings
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noun
the courage to carry on
They kept fighting on pure spunk.
Thesaurus
Etymology
1530, blend of spark + funk (obsolete, “spark”). Funk (“spark, touchwood”) is from Middle English funke, fonke (“spark”), from Old English *funca (“spark”), from Proto-West Germanic *funkō, from Proto-Germanic *funkô (“spark”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peng- (“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”).
funke
Middle English
*funca
Old English
*funkō
Proto-West Germanic
*funkô
Proto-Germanic
*(s)peng-
Proto-Indo-European
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