<adj.all> the champion is faced with a feisty challenger
willing to face danger
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Spunky \Spunk"y\ (-[y^]), a. [Compar. {Spunkier} (-[i^]*[~e]r); superl. {Spunkiest}.] Full of spunk; quick; spirited. [Colloq.]
Earlier this week, the Danish company lost its two-year court battle against Tyco Toys Inc., a spunky imitator based in Mt.
Instead, the spunky 30-year-old works full time as a software engineer for NEC Corp., which she joined eight years ago after getting a college chemistry degree.
When she left this small town 10 years ago, Jennifer Casolo was a spunky and popular teen-ager who had been a high school cheerleader.