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Moxie vs Mars - What's the difference?

moxie | mars |

As nouns the difference between moxie and mars

is that moxie is backbone, determination and fortitude while mars is march.

moxie

English

Noun

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  • backbone, determination and fortitude
  • initiative or skill
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1971 , author=(John Updike) , title=(Rabbit Redux) , page=401 , pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=ohnQr0ij3S8C&pg=PA401&hl=en&sa=X&ei=1zfcUPbOEILrqAHV8YDIAQ&ved=0CDwQ6AEwAA
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    • , passage=As a girl she had speed and a knock-kneed moxie at athletics, and might have done more with it if she hadn't harvested all the glory already. }}
  • * {{quote-video
    • , date = 2011-01-29 , title = (Phineas and Ferb) , episode = : The Musical! , season = 2 , number = 38 , people = (Dan Povenmire) , role = Building Engineer , at = “Aren't You a Little Young?” (song) , passage = Yes it's true! / That you seem a little young to do the things that you do, / even with all that moxie you've got. }}

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    mars

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (mar)

    • Anagrams

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    mar

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .

    Verb

    (marr)
  • To spoil, to damage.
  • * Dryden
    • But mirth is marred , and the good cheer is lost.
  • * Milton
    • Ire, envy, and despair / Which marred all his borrowed visage.

    Etymology 2

    See (m).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small lake.
    • (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

    * (l), (l), (l) * (l) * (l), (l), (l) * (l) ----