'Plucky' definitions:
adjective
Marked by courage and determination in the face of difficulties or danger; robust and uninhibited; "you have to admire her; it was a gutsy thing to do"; "the gutsy...intensity of her musical involvement"-Judith Crist; "a gutsy red wine" [syn:
gutsy, plucky] [ant:
gutless]
adjective
Showing courage; "the champion is faced with a feisty challenger" [syn:
feisty, plucky,
spunky]
- 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]
- bold,
- bulldoggish,
- courageous,
- dauntless,
- doughty,
- fearless,
- game,
- gamy,
- gritty,
- gutsy,
- gutty,
- mettlesome,
- nervy,
- pertinacious,
- red-blooded,
- resolute,
- spirited,
- spiritful,
- spunky,
- tenacious,
- tough,
- unfearing
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