英语词汇spunky的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	spunky
词源	spunky. Spunky means “courageous, spirited, plucky.” Among early American colonists spunk (from Scottish Gaelic spong) meant “tinder” and to spunk up a fire meant “to kindle it up, throw more wood on it.” Soon getting one’s spunk up meant “to become fired with courage,” the term first recorded in 1834, spunky coming along a few years later.
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