plucky
having or showing pluck or courage; brave: The drowning swimmer was rescued by a plucky schoolboy.
Origin of plucky
1Other words for plucky
Other words from plucky
- pluck·i·ly, adverb
- pluck·i·ness, noun
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How to use plucky in a sentence
To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.
The Pocket R.L.S. | Robert Louis StevensonI got him to the little brook and poked his head into the icy water, and after a while he sat up pluckily.
In Search of the Unknown | Robert W. ChambersHe pluckily returned at once to the other end and faced him again.
In Nesting Time | Olive Thorne MillerHowever the reis pluckily led the way, and seized him by the hind leg, when the crowd of men rushed in, and we had a grand tussle.
The Desert World | Arthur Mangin"Yes, I'm tired, but I'm going to keep straight on until dinner-time," she answered pluckily.
A Little Girl in Old Salem | Amanda Minnie Douglas
British Dictionary definitions for plucky
/ (ˈplʌkɪ) /
having or showing courage in the face of difficulties, danger, etc
Derived forms of plucky
- pluckily, adverb
- pluckiness, noun
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