plucky

3 definitions found

plucky - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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]

plucky - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  plucky
      adj 1: 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]
      2: showing courage; "the champion is faced with a feisty
         challenger" [syn: feisty, plucky, spunky]

plucky - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  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