plucky

from 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}]

from 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]

from 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

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