Usage examples for spunky

  1. And there has been days together- and many a weary week- We was both of us cross and spunky, and both too proud to speak; And I have been thinkin' and thinkin', the whole of the winter and fall, If I can't live kind with a woman, why, then, I won't at all. – Farm Ballads by Will Carleton
  2. " This isn't a servants' agency, you know, Miss Porter," answered the spunky Madeleine. – Molly Brown's Junior Days by Nell Speed