Plucky

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Plucky \Pluck"y\, a. [Compar. {Pluckier}; superl. {Pluckiest}.]
     Having pluck or courage; characterized by pluck; displaying
     pluck; courageous; spirited; as, a plucky race.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           If you're plucky, and not over subject to fright.


                                                    --Barham.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  plucky
       adj 1: showing courage; "the champion is faced with a feisty
              challenger" [syn: {feisty}, {spunky}]
       2: showing courage in the face of danger; "a plucky lampooner
          of the administration"
       [also: {pluckiest}, {pluckier}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  22 Moby Thesaurus words for "plucky":
     bold, bulldoggish, courageous, dauntless, doughty, fearless, game,
     gamy, gritty, gutsy, gutty, mettlesome, nervy, pertinacious,
     red-blooded, resolute, spirited, spiritful, spunky, tenacious,
     tough, unfearing