Definition of Spunkiness

1. Noun. The quality of being spunky. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Spunkiness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Spunkiness

spun sugar
spun yarn
spunbonded
spunge
spunged
spunges
spunging
spunging-house
spunked
spunkie
spunkier
spunkies
spunkiest
spunkily
spunkiness
spunkinesses
spunking
spunks
spunlaced
spunlaid
spunyarn
spunyarns
spur
spur-of-the-moment
spur-royal
spur-royals
spur-shell
spur-winged

Literary usage of Spunkiness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Heart of the Continent: A Record of Travel Across the Plains and in by Fitz Hugh Ludlow (1870)
"... have a slight suggestion of their future hump, and a certain spunkiness of demeanor, which, to the close observer, bound them off from the common calf. ..."

2. The Pet Book by Anna Botsford Comstock (1914)
"... reaching the coveted territory first; after which, with his spunkiness and natural animal obstinacy, it was the work of several minutes to get him out. ..."

3. Young Folk's Handbook by American institute of Child Life, After School Club of America (1913)
"Very frequently the spirit of contrariness and spunkiness and the first evidences of opposition appear very strongly from two and a half to three and a half ..."

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