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spunkie Sc. (ˈspʌŋkɪ) Also 8 spunkey, 9 spunky. [f. spunk n.] 1. A will o' the wisp.1727 P. Walker Life R. Cameron in Biogr. Presbyt. (1827) I. 243 Some Willies with the Wisps, or Spunkies of Wild-fire. 1785 Burns Addr. to Deil xiii, An' aft your moss-traversing Spunkies Decoy the wight that late an...
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Blackbirding
In 1867, King Oscar, Spunkie, Fanny Nicholson and Prima Donna returned with close to 1,000 Kanakas who were offloaded in the ports of Brisbane, Bowen and Maryborough and Brisbane became important centres for the trade with vessels such as Spunkie, Jason and Lyttona making frequent recruiting journeys out
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spunky
spunky, a. (ˈspʌŋkɪ) Also 8 spunkey, 8–9 spunkie. [f. spunk n. + -y.] 1. Full of spunk or spirit; courageous, mettlesome, spirited.(a) 1786 Burns Earnest Cry & Prayer xiv, Erskine, a spunkie norland billie. 1793 in W. Roberts Looker-on (1794) II. 312 A strapping lassie, So spunky, brazen, bold, and ...
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Henry Ross Lewin
In 1868, Ross-Lewin chartered the Spunkie, a vessel with the appearance of being a missionary ship, and conducted further recruitment voyages, often enticing
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norland
norland1 (ˈnɔːlənd) Also Sc. 8–9 norlan', 9 norlin', norelin. [Reduced form of northland.] 1. The north-country; the land in the north.a 1578 Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.) I. 202 He was to ryde to the norland amangis his lordis. 1844 Mrs. Browning Drama of Exile 1707 As the storm-wind ...
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Will-o'-the-wisp
The will-o'-the-wisp was also known as the Spunkie in the Scottish Highlands where it would take the form of a linkboy (a boy who carried a flaming torch The spunkie has also been blamed for shipwrecks at night after being spotted on land and mistaken for a harbour light.
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Corpse road
Other names are Jack O' Lantern, or Joan of the Wad, Jenny Burn-tail, Kitty wi' the Whisp, or Spunkie.
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will-o'-the-wisp
will-o'-the-wisp, n. (ˈwɪləðəˈwɪsp) Forms: see below. Pl. will-o'-the-wisps, also wills-o'-the-wisp. [orig. Will with the wisp: see Will n.3 and wisp n. Cf. Jack-o'-lantern, and, for the second element, G. irrwisch.] 1. = ignis fatuus; fig. a thing (rarely a person) that deludes or misleads by means...
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So Weird
The season finale featured Jack becoming possessed by a hyperactive Scottish Will o' the Wisp, also known as a Spunkie. The Spunkie told Fi she could save her brother from his control by speaking his one true name, which was only seven letters.
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United Feature Syndicate
by Tak Toyoshima (July 16, 2007 – September 19, 2009)
Skylark by Elmer Woggon (1929)
Spot the Frog by Mark Heath (January 5, 2004 – July 5, 2008)
Spunkie
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1945 in comics
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November 20: Loy Byrnes, American comic artist (Silly Willie, Spunkie, Punchy & Judy, continued Streaky, assisted on Nancy), dies at age 38 or
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