moxy

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A form of moxie — Nerve, spunk, strength of character.

UncommonScrabble 16

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nounmoxy (uncountable)
  1. alternativeuncommonuncountableAlternative form of moxie.

    You've got charm and energy and sass and moxy and you drive a fast car and you're smart and sexy.

    2010, Terry McMillan, Getting to Happy, page 418
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    At the end, it said, “Are you interested in acting in machinima? Contact Laurina Hawks.” And so I did! I mean little newbish me, just all the moxy in the world, just like, “Yeah! I’m gonna contact this director! I would like to be in a machinima!”

    2012, 1angelcares Writer [pseudonym], “The Voices of Machinima”, in Phylis Johnson, Donald Petti, Machinima: The Art and Practice of Virtual Filmmaking, Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 118

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