| 单词 | plucked one |
| 释义 | > as lemmas(good, etc.) plucked one (also 'un) Having pluck or courage; esp. in (good, etc.) plucked one (also 'un). Conversely †bad-plucked one.† hard-plucked adj. Obsolete hard-hearted, lacking compassion. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > courage > spirit > [adjective] braga1350 animose?a1425 heartlya1450 stomachous1547 bold-spirited1597 mettled1599 mettle1606 animous1609 stomachful1610 stomachious1611 brave-spiriteda1617 mettlesome1673 game1752 spunky1786 spunk1788 gamelike1804 good-woolled1846 plucked1846 bold-hearted1847 gamey1849 gameful1853 gutsy1893 feisty1896 gutty1953 the mind > emotion > courage > daring > [adjective] keenc897 dearOE bolda1000 hardyc1225 yepec1275 crousea1400 jeopardousa1513 audacious1550 facing1564 venturous1565 daring1582 daring-hardy1597 audaculous1603 dareful1614 adventuresome1628 outdacious1742 risky1826 plucky1835 plucked1846 racy1901 have-a-go1953 philobatic1955 Boy's Own1967 the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [adjective] > callous or hard-hearted hard hearteOE steelena1000 hardOE hard-heartedc1225 stony?c1230 yhert1340 dure1412 hardedc1425 induratec1425 stonishc1450 hardenedc1480 steely1508 flinty1536 endured1540 stiff-stomached1540 heartless1556 indured1558 flint-hearted1560 iron1561 marble1565 stone-hearted?1569 stony-hearted1569 iron-hearted1570 steel-hearted1571 rocky?1578 brawned1582 flinted1582 padded1583 obdure?1590 brawny1596 flintful1596 flint-heart1596 steeled1600 cauterized1603 indurated1604 flinty-hearted1629 ahenean1630 dedolent1633 brawny-hearteda1639 hard-grained1643 callous1647 upsitten1682 seared1684 petrified1720 calloused1746 coreless1813 pebble-hearted1816 hard-shelled1848 hard-plucked1857 steel trap1921 1846 ‘Lord Chief Baron’ Swell's Night Guide (new ed.) 79 At a set to, he is a Dick Curtis the second; and an out and out plucked one. 1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xxxvii. 338 What a good plucked one that boy of mine is! 1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days i. vii. 164 The bad plucked ones thinking that after all it isn't worth while to keep it up. 1857 C. Kingsley Two Years Ago I. iv. 118 A very sensible man,..but a terrible hard-plucked one. 1873 Routledge's Young Gentleman's Mag. Feb. 137/2 ‘You see I'm a plucked'un’, he said. 1890 A. Conan Doyle Firm of Girdlestone xx. 161 ‘He has shot himself through the head.’.. ‘He's a bad plucked 'un to knock under like that.’ 1938 D. Fortune Sea Priestess xxvii. 249 I could see her square her shoulders and brace herself to meet it. She was a good-plucked kid. 1972 P. O'Brian Post Captain iii. 68 Once he was in the ring, once he was challenged, he would fight. He was a rare plucked 'un, and he went on even when there was no hope at all. 2001 Cairns (Queensland) Post (Nexis) 27 Aug. 3 The fighting journalist of Thady O'Kane's brand, who died at Cairns recently, was a good plucked 'un. < as lemmas |
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