"mettlesome" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From mettle + -some.",
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      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "mettlesomely"
        },
        {
          "word": "mettlesomeness"
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          "ref": "1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe, chapter 6, in Uncle Tom's Cabin:",
          "text": "The instant Haley touched the saddle, the mettlesome creature bounded from the earth with a sudden spring, that threw his master sprawling, some feet off, on the soft, dry turf.",
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        },
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          "ref": "1948 September and October, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 334:",
          "text": "Among them was the \"West Country\" driver, Swain, of Bude, over the Great Central, who reminded me irresistibly of a hunter putting a particularly mettlesome steed at the fences.",
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        "Marked by mettle or bravery; courageous."
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          "bravery",
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          "courageous",
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          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "smel",
          "sense": "of great mettle",
          "word": "смел"
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          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "hrabǎr",
          "sense": "of great mettle",
          "word": "храбър"
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "of great mettle",
          "word": "lujahermoinen"
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "of great mettle",
          "word": "rautainen"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "of great mettle",
          "word": "preux"
        },
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "of great mettle",
          "word": "mutig"
        },
        {
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "of great mettle",
          "word": "faghartha"
        },
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          "code": "pt",
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          "sense": "of great mettle",
          "word": "brioso"
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  "word": "mettlesome"
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      "word": "mettlesomely"
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  "etymology_text": "From mettle + -some.",
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      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "smel",
      "sense": "of great mettle",
      "word": "смел"
    },
    {
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      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "hrabǎr",
      "sense": "of great mettle",
      "word": "храбър"
    },
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "of great mettle",
      "word": "lujahermoinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "of great mettle",
      "word": "rautainen"
    },
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      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "of great mettle",
      "word": "preux"
    },
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "of great mettle",
      "word": "mutig"
    },
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      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "of great mettle",
      "word": "faghartha"
    },
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      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "of great mettle",
      "word": "brioso"
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      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "of great mettle",
      "word": "brioso"
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  "word": "mettlesome"
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