pluckilyadv.
/ˈplʌkᵻli/, U.S. /ˈpləkəli/ colloquial.
In a plucky manner; bravely, courageously; tenaciously.
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the mind > emotion > courage > spirit > [adverb]
heartlyc1300
jollily13..
heartilya1450
a-pluck?1562
gallantlya1616
pluckily1790
gamely1811
spunkily1890
1790 R. Tyler Contrast v. i. 69 Now, that scolding wife sticks in my gizzard so pluckily, that I can't laugh for the blood and nowns of me.
1858 A. Trollope Dr. Thorne II. xv. 292 ‘No,’ said Frank, pluckily, as he put his horse into a faster trot, ‘I won't mortgage that.’
1898 S. Baring-Gould Old Eng. Home xi. 285 A boy..waiting and receiving his punishment pluckily.
1920 T. S. Eliot Let. 2 Dec. (1988) I. 425 Poor Maurice has been pluckily struggling to prepare for an examination for a new post which he greatly covets, and the examination is tomorrow.
1954 K. Amis Lucky Jim vii. 77 The eeriness..disconcerted him..but he soldiered pluckily on to his objective.
1991 W. Styron Darkness Visible vi. 61 Accept it, whether pluckily or whimpering and complaining, according to our personal degree of stoicism.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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