spunky
/ˈspʌŋki
/adjective (spunkier, spunkiest) informal
1Courageous and determined: a spunky performance...
- The old, spunky Madeline was gone and in her place was the submissive shadow of her former self.
- I couldn't believe how spunky this little old woman was.
- Laura said it's the perfect home for her and her husband, Darren, and their spunky 8-year old daughter, Sarah.
2chiefly Australian Sexually attractive: a top chick with a spunky boyfriend...
- Me and a friend were kind of flirting with a group of guys from across the room… very spunky guys.
- The dazzling ladies and spunky blokes were a great hit with the crowd.
- Gynaecologists in Sydney have been known to leave their wives for younger, spunkier patients.
Derivatives
spunkily
- On the ferry he is approached by an escaped convict, ‘Ruth Webster’ (spunkily played by Ida Lupino), who is trying to hide from two detectives.
- This may explain why Eva - spunkily played by show biz veteran Birch - is such a true-to-life heroine.
- When I got there I tried to argue with Tommy but the latter wouldn't accept anything short of an apology and McKisco rather spunkily wouldn't give it.
spunkiness
- At least Busted have a hormonal effervescence and irrepressible spunkiness that's genuinely teenage.
- She didn't have her natural spunkiness, which made everyone a little suspicious.
- Ryan looked a little shocked at her spunkiness, but Maria didn't seem to notice.
Rhymes
- womb trumpet
- wombward
- womby
- women
- womenfolk
- women-grown
- womenkind
- women liberator
- women-matters
- women-men
- women-only
- womenpower
- women's boat
- women's business
- women's college
- women's courses
- Women's Electoral Lobby
- women's fiction
- women's group
- Women's Institute
- women's issue
- women's lib
- women's libber
- women's liberation
- women's liberationist