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plucky

/ˈplʌki/

plucky adjective: having or showing pluck, courage or spirit in trying circumstances.

Adjective

plucky (comparative pluckier, superlative pluckiest)

  1. (informal) Having or showing pluck, courage or spirit in trying circumstances.
    • For my military knowledge, though I'm plucky and adventury, / Has only been brought down to the beginning of the century1890, W. S. Gilbert, “The Modern Major-General”, in Songs of a Savoyard
    • "Dam' plucky of you, fixing it up like that. I kept that copper talking...give you a chance. By George, you did it perfectly."1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 231
    Synonyms:
    brave, spunky, feisty

plucky meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

plucky in Hindi

having or showing pluck
वीर vīr

plucky in Urdu

بہادر

plucky in Bengali

সাহসী ও দৃঢ়প্রতিজ্ঞ

plucky in Malayalam

ധൃഷ്ടനായ, നിർഭയനായ, ധീരനായ, പൗരുഷമുള്ള
More languagesFewer languages
plucky in Kannada
ಧೈರ್ಯದ, ಕೆಚ್ಚೆದೆಯ, ಎದೆಗಾರಿಕೆಯ
plucky in Vietnamese
can đảm

Examples of plucky in a sentence

  • The focus of Simpson’s ire was a spunky, young upstart, the plucky 39-year-old Chase Utley.
  • So our plucky thieves switch to a “cash business,” which Gaston doesn’t mind but Lily does.
  • You’re a good sort and that was a rattlin’ plucky tackle you made yesterday.

All 13 example sentences with plucky

Synonyms of plucky

Forms of plucky

comparativepluckier
superlativepluckiest

Origin of plucky

From pluck (“nerve, persistence”) + -y.

Words formed from plucky

Words that rhyme with plucky

5 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about plucky

What does plucky mean?
Plucky means having or showing pluck, courage or spirit in trying circumstances.
What is plucky in Hindi?
Plucky in Hindi is वीर (vīr). See Plucky meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is plucky?
Plucky is an adjective.
How do you pronounce plucky?
Plucky is pronounced /ˈplʌki/.

Words near plucky in the dictionary

  1. plucks
  2. plucks out
  3. plucks up
  4. plucks up one's courage
  5. pluckt
  6. plucky
  7. plucot
  8. plucots
  9. Plude
  10. pluderhose
  11. Pludes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: plucky (page history and authors); plucky (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); plucky (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); plucky (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); plucky (Kannada 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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