courage, nerve (Slang)
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Moxie Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(n.)
Know-how, expertise.
Know-how, expertise.
(n.)
energy; pep.
energy; pep.
(n.)
courage, determination.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. Aboutcourage, determination.
moxie
\mox"ie\ (?), n. [fr. moxie, a trade name for a beverage.]
1. energy; pep.
2. courage, determination.
3. know-how, expertise. --mw10.
moxie
n : (informal) fortitude and determination; "he didn't have the guts to try it" [syn: backbone, grit, guts, sand, gumption]
chutzpah, gumption, pluck, spirit, courage.. -"It takes a lot of moxie to challenge $5,000 worth of parking tickets at city hall." In the end, moxie is a kind of courage: "Thyra simply could not summon up the moxie to ask her boss, Mr. Bentwit, to go with her to the Halloween Ball."
Noun
1. fortitude and determination; "he didn't have the guts to try it"
(synonym) backbone, grit, guts, sand, gumption
(hypernym) fortitude
(classification) colloquialism
Moxie Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
- For the interactive marketing agency in in Atlanta, GA, USA, see Moxie (company).
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