The noun spunk came up on ADS-L recently, in two different senses: ‘spirit, mettle; courage, pluck’ (OED2, with citations from 1773 — Oliver Goldsmith — on) and the “coarse” sexual slang ‘seminal fluid’ (citations from c1890 — My Secret Life — on); the original senses were for various kinds of spark, from which the other … Continue reading spunk