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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. marked by courage and determination in the face of difficulties or danger; robust and uninhibited;
- Example: "you have to admire her it was a gutsy thing to do";
- Example: "the gutsy...intensity of her musical involvement"-Judith Crist
- Example: "a gutsy red wine"
[syn: gutsy, plucky]

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



The 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]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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]


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