Word.ws English Dictionary

spunky

/ˈspʌŋki/

spunky adjective: spirited or plucky.

Adjective

spunky (comparative spunkier, superlative spunkiest)

  1. (US) Spirited or plucky.
  2. (UK, slang) Pertaining to or like spunk (semen).
    • I'm not the kind of girl you want to come across / Yo, it's Josh T with his spunky sauce2016 May 5, “Thinking He's Hard (Little T Reply)”, performed by Soph Aspin
  3. (UK, slang) Stained with semen.
  4. (Australia, slang) Of a person, stunningly beautiful; good-looking.

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

spunky meaning in Urdu

spunky in Urdu

باہمت, دلیر, جی دار, جیوٹ, جوشیلا

Forms of spunky

Adjective
comparativespunkier
superlativespunkiest
Noun
pluralspunkys
pluralspunkies

Origin of spunky

From spunk + -y.

Words formed from spunky

Words that rhyme with spunky

5 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about spunky

What does spunky mean?
Spunky means spirited or plucky.
What is spunky in Urdu?
Spunky in Urdu is باہمت, دلیر, جی دار. See Spunky meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is spunky?
Spunky can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce spunky?
Spunky is pronounced /ˈspʌŋki/.

Words near spunky in the dictionary

  1. spunkless
  2. spunks
  3. spunks off
  4. spunktrumpet
  5. spunktrumpets
  6. spunky
  7. spunkys
  8. spunlaced
  9. spunlaid
  10. spunmelt
  11. spunmelts

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: spunky (page history and authors); spunky (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-spunky.wav.

Cite this entry: “spunky.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/spunky. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.