mettlesome

English

Etymology

mettle +‎ -some

Adjective

mettlesome (comparative more mettlesome, superlative most mettlesome)

Marked by mettle or bravery; courageous.
- 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe, chapter 6, in Uncle Tom's Cabin:
  The instant Haley touched the saddle, the mettlesome creature bounded from the earth with a sudden spring, that threw his master sprawling, some feet off, on the soft, dry turf.

Derived terms

Translations

of great mettle

Bulgarian: смел (bg) (smel), храбър (bg) (hrabǎr)
Finnish: lujahermoinen, rautainen (fi)
French: preux (fr)
Irish: faghartha

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