What's the difference between spunk and stunk?

Spunk


Definition:

  • (n.) Wood that readily takes fire; touchwood; also, a kind of tinder made from a species of fungus; punk; amadou.
  • (n.) An inflammable temper; spirit; mettle; pluck; as, a man of spunk.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Other countries across the world have had the spunk within them to rise up and overthrow the society that allows such inequality and unfairness to thrive.
  • (2) In the face of recurring jokes about spunk, shit and piss (the three most resilient weapons in any gross-out film-maker's arsenal), shock value soon took a tumble.
  • (3) That phenomenal voice and talent and the spunk that she has, I really admire all that.
  • (4) And, ironically, I couldn't mend it, as you'd smeared the last of your Copydex all over your hands while shouting: "I spunked up while watching Cagney & Lacey !"
  • (5) It's all about setting goals #NEDvsAUS June 18, 2014 4.40pm BST Brian Russell sees some Dutch in the Aussies, kind of: "I applaud the optimism and raging Aussie spunk of Jeremy Boyce and Johan van Slooten," he writes, "but all the facts points to a pretty comprehensive Dutch win today.
  • (6) And it makes SATC's bunny rabbit and "funky spunk" episodes look like Pillow Talk.
  • (7) Chances are their parents have already spunked everything they own.
  • (8) My recollection is, two days later we were playing a gig in Germany and we probably spunked it all on beer."
  • (9) Mom downplays most of the negatives I've written about, just like she did with unpleasantness when I was growing up, and she shows astonishing spunk in promoting the book.
  • (10) But it was never like, 'Let's spunk it on drugs and booze!'

Stunk


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Stink
  • () imp. & p. p. of Stink.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) She stunk the place out, but the smell, to me, was extraordinary.

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