Plucky

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Having pluck or courage; characterized by pluck; displaying pluck; courageous; spirited; as, a plucky race. If you're plucky, and not over subject to fright. - Barham.

Adj.	1.	plucky - showing courage; "the champion is faced with a feisty challenger" Synonyms: feisty, spunky
	2.	plucky - showing courage in the face of danger; "a plucky lampooner of the administration"

bold, bulldoggish, courageous, dauntless, doughty, fearless, game, gamy, gritty, gutsy, gutty, mettlesome, nervy, pertinacious, red-blooded, resolute, spirited, spiritful, spunky, tenacious, tough, unfearing