Spank vs. Spunk — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Spank and Spunk
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Spank
To slap on the buttocks with a flat object or with the open hand, as for punishment.
Spunk
Courage and determination
She's got no spunk, or she'd have left him long ago
Spank
To move briskly or spiritedly.
Spunk
Semen.
Spank
A slap on the buttocks.
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Spunk
A sexually attractive person.
Spank
(transitive) To beat, smack or slap a person's buttocks, with the bare hand or other object, as punishment, gesture, or form of sexual interaction.
Spunk
(Informal) Spirit; pluck.
Spank
(transitive) To soundly defeat, to trounce.
Spunk
Punk, touchwood, or other tinder.
Spank
(transitive) To hit very hard.
Spunk
Vulgar Slang Ejaculated semen.
Spank
(intransitive) To move rapidly.
The ship was really spanking along.
Spunk
A spark.
Spank
An instance of spanking, separately or part of a multiple blows-beating; a smack, swat, or slap.
Spunk
(uncountable) Touchwood; tinder.
Spank
A slapping sound, as produced by spanking.
Spunk
A piece of tinder, sometimes impregnated with sulphur; a match.
Spank
To strike, as the breech, with the open hand; to slap.
Spunk
(uncountable) Courage; spirit; mettle; determination.
Spank
To move with a quick, lively step between a trot and gallop; to move quickly.
Spunk
An attractive person (normally male).
Spank
A blow with the open hand; a slap.
Spunk
Semen.
Spank
A slap with the flat of the hand
Spunk
To catch fire; flame up.
Spank
Give a spanking to; subject to a spanking
Spunk
To ejaculate.
He spunked into the condom.
Spunk
To waste (money etc.).
Spunk
Wood that readily takes fire; touchwood; also, a kind of tinder made from a species of fungus; punk; amadou.
Spunk
An inflammable temper; spirit; mettle; pluck; as, a man of spunk.
A lawless and dangerous set, men of spunk, and spirit, and power, both of mind and body.
Spunk
Material for starting a fire
Spunk
The courage to carry on;
He kept fighting on pure spunk
You haven't got the heart for baseball
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