Gallant vs Plucky - What's the difference?
gallant | plucky | Synonyms |
Brave, valiant.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
Honorable.
*
Grand, noble.
(lb) Showy; splendid; magnificent; gay; well-dressed.
* (John Evelyn) (1620-1706)
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
(dated) Fashionable young man, who is polite and attentive to women.
* 1610 , , act 1 scene 2
One who woos, a lover, a suitor, a seducer.
* 1819 , , Otho the Great , Act III, Scene II, verses 140-143
An animal or thing of grey colour, such as a horse, badger, or salmon.
* Sir Walter Scott
(nautical) topgallant
(obsolete) To attend or wait on (a lady).
(obsolete) To handle with grace or in a modish manner.
Having or showing pluck, courage or spirit in trying circumstances.
As adjectives the difference between gallant and plucky
is that gallant is brave, valiant while plucky is having or showing pluck, courage or spirit in trying circumstances.As a noun gallant
is fashionable young man, who is polite and attentive to women.As a verb gallant
is to attend or wait on (a lady).gallant
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Alternative forms
* gallaunt (obsolete)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Adjective
(en adjective)- That gallant spirit hath aspired the clouds.
- Captain Edward Carlisle; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.
- The town is built in a very gallant place.
- our royal, good and gallant ship
Etymology 2
From (etyl)Noun
(en noun)- PROSPERO: [...] this gallant which thou see'st / Was in the wrack; and but he's something stain'd /with grief,—that beauty's canker,—thou mightst call him / A goodly person [...]
- The ignominy of that whisper’d tale
- About a midnight gallant , seen to climb
- A window to her chamber neighbour’d near,
- I will from her turn off,
- Woe worth the chase, woe worth the day, / That costs thy life, my gallant grey .
Verb
(en verb)- to gallant ladies to the play
- to gallant a fan