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pluckily

pluckily adverb: in a plucky manner.

Adverb

pluckily (comparative more pluckily, superlative most pluckily)

  1. In a plucky manner.
    • He was loudly praised for sticking so pluckily to his self-imposed task, and to this day, though it is thirteen years ago, the diggers on the Australian coast talk of the voyage of the Springbok and speak gratefully of the man who helped to save her.1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 181
    • Once, one of the Bats, having seized a large and powerful T. pronuba, brought its feet so far forward that it fell over on to its back, but pluckily held the moth in its pouch until it was secured.1899, Charles Oldham, “The mode in which Bats secure their prey”, in The Zoologist, volume 3, number 700, page 472/473

pluckily meaning in Malayalam

pluckily in Malayalam

ധീരതയോടെ, വീര്യത്തോടെ, ചുണയോടെ

Forms of pluckily

comparativemore pluckily
superlativemost pluckily

Origin of pluckily

From plucky + -ly.

Questions about pluckily

What does pluckily mean?
Pluckily means in a plucky manner.
What is pluckily in Malayalam?
Pluckily in Malayalam is ധീരതയോടെ, വീര്യത്തോടെ, ചുണയോടെ. See Pluckily meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is pluckily?
Pluckily is an adverb.

Words near pluckily in the dictionary

  1. pluckers
  2. pluckest
  3. plucketh
  4. pluckier
  5. pluckiest
  6. pluckily
  7. pluckiness
  8. plucking
  9. plucking out
  10. plucking post
  11. plucking posts

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pluckily (page history and authors); pluckily (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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