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Pluck vs Manfulness - What's the difference?

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Pluck is a related term of manfulness.


As nouns the difference between pluck and manfulness

is that pluck is an instance of plucking while manfulness is the state of being manful.

As a verb pluck

is (lb) to pull something sharply; to pull something out.

pluck

English

Verb

  • (lb) To pull something sharply; to pull something out
  • :
  • *1900 , , Ch.I:
  • *:The girl stooped to pluck a rose, and as she bent over it, her profile was clearly outlined.
  • To gently play a single string, e.g. on a guitar, violin etc.
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  • (lb) To remove feathers from a bird.
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  • *:Molly the dairymaid came a little way from the rickyard, and said she would pluck the pigeon that very night after work. She was always ready to do anything for us boys; and we could never quite make out why they scolded her so for an idle hussy indoors. It seemed so unjust.
  • (lb) To rob, fleece, steal forcibly
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  • (lb) To play a string instrument pizzicato
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  • (lb) To pull or twitch sharply.
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  • To reject at an examination for degrees.
  • *1847 , , (Jane Eyre)
  • *:He went to college, and he got— plucked , I think they call it: and then his uncles wanted him to be a barrister, and study the law.

    • Derived terms

    * plucker * plucking * pluck up

    Noun

    (-)
  • An instance of plucking
    • ''Those tiny birds are hardly worth the tedious pluck
  • The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals.
  • Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence.
    • He didn't get far with the attempt, but you have to admire his pluck .

    Derived terms

    * plucky

    References

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    Anagrams

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    manfulness

    English

    Noun

    (es)
  • The state of being manful
  • *{{quote-book, year=1881, author=Thomas Carlyle, title=Past and Present, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=He will at least have the manfulness to depart out of it, if not; to say: "I cannot move in thee, and be a man; like a wretched drift-log dressed in man's clothes and minister's clothes, doomed to a lot baser than belongs to man, I will not continue with thee, tumbling aimless on the Mother of Dead Dogs here:--Adieu!" }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1881, author=Charles Kingsley, title=Westminster Sermons, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=He only sees his own weakness, and want of life, of spirit, of manfulness , of power. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1825, author=Thomas Carlyle, title=The Life of Friedrich Schiller, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Nor were these sentiments, be it remembered, the mere boasting manifesto of a hot-brained inexperienced youth, entering on literature with feelings of heroic ardour, which its difficulties and temptations would soon deaden or pervert: they are the calm principles of a man, expressed with honest manfulness , at a period when the world could compare them with a long course of conduct. }}