The Meaning of pluck

• (v. t.) To pull; to draw.
• (v. t.) Especially, to pull with sudden force or effort, or to pull off or out from something, with a twitch; to twitch; also, to gather, to pick; as, to pluck feathers from a fowl; to pluck hair or wool from a skin; to pluck grapes.
• (v. t.) To strip of, or as of, feathers; as, to pluck a fowl.
• (v. t.) To reject at an examination for degrees.
• (v. i.) To make a motion of pulling or twitching; -- usually with at; as, to pluck at one's gown.
• (n.) The act of plucking; a pull; a twitch.
• (n.) The heart, liver, and lights of an animal.
• (n.) Spirit; courage; indomitable resolution; fortitude.
• (n.) The act of plucking, or the state of being plucked, at college. See Pluck, v. t., 4.
• (v. t.) The lyrie.

Synonyms

gutsiness , pluckiness , tweak , pull off , pick off , hustle , roll , overcharge , soak , surcharge , gazump , fleece , plume , rob , hook , plunk , pick , pull , tear , deplume , deplumate , displume , pick , cull

Antonyms

gutlessness , undercharge

Rhymes

amok , amuck , bruck , buc , buck , canuck , chuck , chuck-a-luck , cluck , cruck , druck , duc , duck , duk , dumbstruck , fluck , fuck , gluck , guck , huck , hucke , kluck , kruck , kruk , kuc , kuck , kuk , luck , lucke , luk , megabuck , moonstruck , muck , potluck , puck , roebuck , ruck , schmuck , schuch , schuck , sculk , shuck , smuck , snuck , starstruck , struck , stuck , stucke , suck , suk , thunderstruck , truck , tuck , tuque , unstuck , wnuk , woodchuck , wruck , yuck , yuk , zuck , zuk