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spunkies

spunkies is the plural of spunky.

Meaning of spunky

Noun

spunky (plural spunkys or spunkies)

  1. (Australia, dated, slang) A good-looking person.
    • But every Friday night up at the Harbord Diggers disco he'd be holding court, three or four spunkys hanging off each arm[.]1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 83

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Questions about spunkies

What is spunkies the plural of?
Spunkies is the plural of spunky.

Words near spunkies in the dictionary

  1. spunk off
  2. spunk-water
  3. spunked
  4. spunked off
  5. spunkier
  6. spunkies
  7. spunkiest
  8. spunkily
  9. spunkiness
  10. spunking
  11. spunking off

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