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 Meanings and Examples of PLUCKY
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plucky
 a.  having or showing courage and spirit in trying circumstances
Classic Sentence:
1  And so now you have come into the town, and have taken this long journey in winter--that was plucky of you.
A Doll's House By Henrik Ibsen
Context  Highlight   In ACT I
2  To this class they all belonged, and in it the great thing was to be elegant, generous, plucky, gay, to abandon oneself without a blush to every passion, and to laugh at everything else.
Anna Karenina(V1) By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 34
3  We pass the Munson place, where a plucky white widow is renting and struggling; and the eleven hundred acres of the Sennet plantation, with its Negro overseer.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VII
Example Sentence:
1  The plucky young nurse dove into the foxhole, determined to help the wounded soldier.