Plucked un

a stout or brave fellow; “he’s a rare PLUCKED UN ,” i.e. , he dares face anything. During the Crime an War and the Indian Mutiny PLUCKY , signifying courageous, became a favourite term even among ladies; and the term British PLUCK will probably live—slangy as is its origin—as long as the language into which it has been adopted, for the history of the deeds with which it is a ociated can never die, while, indeed, a history remains to this country. The word met with great disfavour at first from the “genteel,” but of course they followed when aristocracy deigned to use it. Plum , £100,000, usually applied to the dowry of a rich heire , to a legacy, or to a sum made in busine or by a lucky speculation.