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Just a doodle. Those of you old enough (which is very old in fact) to remember watching the Rocky & Bullwinkle Show will recall that the narrator sometimes called Rocky, "the plucky squirrel." That's because *our* fathers and grandfathers used the word "plucky" ... we boomers had already abandoned it along with "thee" and "thou," "bodkin" and "zounds."
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Plucky is a description of an attitude. Like gumption or pep. "One's pluck could see him through." It fell out of use after WWII for no real reason. Plucky Duck was a pun. as in "Pluck the feathers from a bird." Saara'as version of Rocky the Squirrel is a WWII fighter pilot, like how Elvis served in the army, but Rocky ends up flying airplanes in combat.
There must be some equivalent in Spanish ... but the narrator may only have said something else, like "magnificent" or "brave."
Another English word that means much the same as plucky, but was more British than American, and has completely fallen out of use since WWII ... if not earlier ... is "doughty."
Another English word that means much the same as plucky, but was more British than American, and has completely fallen out of use since WWII ... if not earlier ... is "doughty."
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