well-plucked, a. colloq.
[plucked a.]
Plucky, fearless.
| 1873 M. A. Barker Station Amusements in N.Z. 148 He was a well-plucked one... He told me it took five mortal hours to come the last mile. 1936 M. de la Roche Whiteoak Harvest xviii. 230 ‘That gray one is a 'andful for you’... ‘I'm not afraid.’ ‘You're wot I call a well-plucked 'un.’ |