Spunk

Spunk is a made-up word created by Astrid Lindgren in her famous children's book Pippi Longstocking. Pippi makes up the word one morning and then spends the rest of the day with her friends trying to find out what a "spunk" is. Of course nobody they ask knows, and so they don't find out.

In 1971, the German sweets company Galle & Jessen marketed a new licorice candy and chose the name "Spunk" for it in reference to Pippi Longstocking.

Slang for:

• Semen in colloquial (British) English.
• Courage or spirit in (British and American) English, although this usage is now rather old-fashioned.
• An attractive person (normally male) in (Australian) English.

Spunk Library is an anarchist collective dedicated to documenting anarchist publications and making them widely available through the Internet.