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spunkish

spunkish adjective: synonym of spunky.

Adjective

spunkish (comparative more spunkish, superlative most spunkish)

  1. Synonym of spunky.
    • After Lil Rocker hastily greeted me with a brotherly handshake and his spunkish smile, I quickly inquired as to where he was going in such a rush.2011, Mike Scott, Great American Youth: A True Saga, →ISBN, page 82
    Synonyms:
    spunky
  2. Decrepit or unsound.
    • I do not know whether any of you have seen Mr. Crnwe. He is a thin, middle-sized chap of seven-and-twenty ; dark brown hair, a little frizzley ; face yellowfied by the West Indies ; grey eyes ; large teeth that project outwards like a horse's; spunkish legs, not very straight; and, withal, he has a...1849, The Roscoe magazine and Lancashire and Cheshire literary reporter
    • A shrunken elm-bole, which age and the lightnings have robbed of branch and twig, stands on a hump of earth beside a decayed and spunkish oak.1907, Great Thoughts from Master Minds, page 352

Synonyms of spunkish

Forms of spunkish

comparativemore spunkish
superlativemost spunkish

Origin of spunkish

From spunk + -ish.

Questions about spunkish

What does spunkish mean?
Spunkish means synonym of spunky.
What part of speech is spunkish?
Spunkish is an adjective.

Words near spunkish in the dictionary

  1. spunkiest
  2. spunkily
  3. spunkiness
  4. spunking
  5. spunking off
  6. spunkish
  7. spunkless
  8. spunks
  9. spunks off
  10. spunktrumpet
  11. spunktrumpets

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