LekhoriLekhoriA spark.
"[...] That's none such an entirely bad little man, yon little man with the red head," said Alan. "He has some spunks of decency."
Touchwood; tinder.
Spunk, or Touch-wood prepared, might perhaps make it Russet: and some, as Beringuccio affirmeth, have promised to make it Red.
A piece of tinder, sometimes impregnated with sulphur; a match.
At present, her only means of procuring subsistence for herself and children, is by making spunks or matches, which, either she or her eldest child, a girl about six years of age, sells from door to door.
To catch fire; flame up.
1530, blend of spark + funk (obsolete, “spark”). Funk (“spark, touchwood”) is from Middle English funke, fonke (“spark”), from Old English *funca (“spark”), from Proto-West Germanic *funkō, from Proto...
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