METTLESOME
 
 met▪tle▪some 
 
   adj.   
 
Word Meaning:
 
willing to face danger 
 
courageous, high-spirited
 
full of mettle; spirited and plucky
 
possessing or displaying courage
 
having a proud and unbroken spirit
 
 
Sample Sentences:
 
Their horses were beasts of burden, not mettlesome chargers.
 
The wheelers especially were a splendid pair of mettlesome stallions.
 
Except for a laggard quality in the ballet movements, it moves with a mettlesome step.
 
It transmutes the mood of a mettlesome farce into the gusto and colors of the musical stage.
 
Here she mounts some a mettlesome horse and trains him with wonderful skill and boldness.
 
She felt almost magically healthy, strong and mettlesome, and, further,she began to feel happy.
 
 
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Etymology of the English word mettlesome:  
the English word mettlesomederived from the English word mettlederived from the English word metalderived from the Old French word metalderived from the Latin word metallum (metal; mine; quarry)    using the Obsolete English suffix- some