Spunk vs Tenacity - What's the difference?
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(countable, obsolete) A spark.
* 1886 , , 2009,
(uncountable) Touchwood; tinder.
* 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 ,
* 1843 , John Wilson, John Gibson Lockhart, William Maginn, James Hogg, The Noctes Ambrosianæ of “Blackwood” , Volume IV,
(uncountable) Courage; spirit; mettle; determination.
* 1920 August, Edward Leonard, Old Zeke?s Mule'', '' ,
* 1991 , Lindsey Hanks, (copyright Linda Chesnutt, Georgia Pierce), Long Texas Night , Zebra Books, US,
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(countable, UK, Australia, New Zealand, slang) An attractive person (normally male).
* 2005 , Sue Austin, Women?s Aggressive Fantasies: A Post-Jungian Exploration of Self-Hatred, Love and Agency , Routledge, UK,
(uncountable, chiefly, UK, vulgar, slang) Semen.
* 2007 , Debra Hyde, Kidnapped'', Violet Blue (editor), ''Lust: Erotic Fantasies for Women , 2010, ReadHowYouWant,
The quality or state of being tenacious; as, tenacity, or retentiveness, of memory; tenacity, or persistency, of purpose.
* 2009 , ,
The quality of bodies which keeps them from parting without considerable force; cohesiveness; the effect of attraction; – as distinguished from brittleness, fragility, mobility, etc.
The quality of bodies which makes them adhere to other bodies; adhesiveness; viscosity.
The greatest longitudinal stress a substance can bear without tearing asunder, – usually expressed with reference to a unit area of the cross section of the substance, as the number of pounds per square inch, or kilograms per square centimeter, necessary to produce rupture.
Spunk is a related term of tenacity.
As nouns the difference between spunk and tenacity
is that spunk is (countable|obsolete) a spark while tenacity is the quality or state of being tenacious; as, tenacity, or retentiveness, of memory; tenacity, or persistency, of purpose.As a verb spunk
is (slang|vulgar) to ejaculate.spunk
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Noun
(en-noun)page 109,
- “That?s none such an entirely bad little man, yon little man with the red head,” said Alan. “He has some spunks of decency.”
- Spunk , or Touch-wood prepared, might perhaps make it Russet: and some, as Beringuccio affirmeth, have promised to make it Red.
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.
page 396,
- “Spunks' — '''spunks''' — '''spunks''' — who will buy my ' spunks ?” — cried an errant voice with a beseeching earnestness.
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- “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.”
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.
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.
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.
Anagrams
*tenacity
English
Noun
(tenacities)PHD Comics: Softball: younger and faster
- — Our opponents may be younger, faster and less out of shape than we are, but we have something they’ll never have!
- — Tenure?
- — Tenacity!
