Pluckverb
(transitive) To pull something sharply; to pull something out
‘She plucked the phone from her bag and dialled.’;
Gutsnoun
plural of gut
Pluckverb
(transitive) To take or remove (someone) quickly from a particular place or situation.
Gutsnoun
The entrails or contents of the abdomen.
Pluckverb
To gently play a single string, e.g. on a guitar, violin etc.
‘Whereas a piano strikes the string, a harpsichord plucks it.’;
Gutsnoun
(slang) Courage; determination.
‘It must have taken some guts to speak in front of that audience.’; ‘She doesn't take any nonsense from anyone—she's got guts.’;
Pluckverb
(transitive) To remove feathers from a bird.
Gutsnoun
(slang) Content, substance.
‘His speech had no guts in it.’;
Pluckverb
(transitive) To rob, fleece, steal forcibly
‘The horny highwayman plucked his victims to their underwear, or attractive ones all the way.’;
Gutsnoun
(in the plural) The essential, core parts.
‘He knew all about the guts of the business, how things actually get done.’;
Pluckverb
(transitive) To play a string instrument pizzicato.
‘Plucking a bow instrument may cause a string to break.’;
Gutsnoun
(slang) One's innermost feelings.
‘If you need someone to spill your guts out to, I'm here.’;
Pluckverb
(intransitive) To pull or twitch sharply.
‘to pluck at somebody's sleeve’;
Gutsverb
(informal) To show determination or courage (especially in the combination guts out).
‘He gutsed out a 6-1 win.’;
Pluckverb
To be rejected after failing an examination for a degree.
Gutsnoun
fortitude and determination;
‘he didn't have the guts to try it’;
Pluckverb
Of a glacier: to transport individual pieces of bedrock by means of gradual erosion through freezing and thawing.
Plucknoun
An instance of plucking.
‘Those tiny birds are hardly worth the tedious pluck.’;
Plucknoun
The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals.
Plucknoun
Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence.
‘He didn't get far with the attempt, but you have to admire his pluck.’;
Plucknoun
Cheap wine.
Pluckverb
To pull; to draw.
‘Its own nature . . . plucks on its own dissolution.’;
Pluckverb
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.
‘I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude.’; ‘E'en children followed, with endearing wile,And plucked his gown to share the good man's smile.’;
Pluckverb
To strip of, or as of, feathers; as, to pluck a fowl.
‘They which pass by the way do pluck her.’;
Pluckverb
To reject at an examination for degrees.
Pluckverb
To make a motion of pulling or twitching; - usually with at; as, to pluck at one's gown.
Plucknoun
The act of plucking; a pull; a twitch.
Plucknoun
The heart, liver, and lights of an animal.
Plucknoun
Spirit; courage; indomitable resolution; fortitude.
‘Decay of English spirit, decay of manly pluck.’;
Plucknoun
The act of plucking, or the state of being plucked, at college. See Pluck, v. t., 4.
Plucknoun
The lyrie.
Plucknoun
the trait of showing courage and determination in spite of possible loss or injury
Plucknoun
the act of pulling and releasing a taut cord
Pluckverb
pull or pull out sharply;
‘pluck the flowers off the bush’;
Pluckverb
sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity
Pluckverb
rip off; ask an unreasonable price
Pluckverb
pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion;
‘he plucked the strings of his mandolin’;
Pluckverb
strip of feathers;
‘pull a chicken’; ‘pluck the capon’;
Pluckverb
look for and gather;
‘pick mushrooms’; ‘pick flowers’;
