mettlesome

mettlesome
    adj 1: having a proud and unbroken spirit
    2: willing to face danger [syn: {game}, {gamy}, {gamey},
       {gritty}, {mettlesome}, {spirited}, {spunky}]
    

Mettlesome \Met"tle*some\, a.
   Full of spirit; possessing constitutional ardor; fiery; as, a
   mettlesome horse.
   [1913 Webster] -- {Met"tle*some*ly}, adv. --
   {Met"tle*some*ness}, n.
   [1913 Webster]
    

82 Moby Thesaurus words for "mettlesome":
      active, acute, aggressive, agitable, animated, beany, brisk,
      bulldoggish, courageous, dauntless, dynamic, edgy, emotional,
      emotionally unstable, energetic, enterprising, enthusiastic,
      eruptive, excitable, explosive, fiery, forceful, forcible,
      full of pep, game, gamy, go-go, gritty, gutsy, gutty, hearty,
      high-mettled, high-spirited, high-strung, highly emotional,
      impetuous, incisive, inflammable, intense, irascible, irritable,
      keen, kinetic, lively, living, lusty, nervous, nervy, peppery,
      peppy, pertinacious, perturbable, plucky, prickly, red-blooded,
      resolute, robust, sensitive, skittish, smacking, snappy, spanking,
      spirited, spiritful, spunky, startlish, strenuous, strong,
      take-charge, take-over, tenacious, touchy, tough, trenchant,
      vibrant, vigorous, vivacious, vivid, volcanic, zestful, zesty,
      zippy