Moxie (noun) (informal)
mok-see
Courageous spirit and determination.
An Americanism first recorded in 1925–30; after Moxie, a trademark (name of a soft drink)
Example sentences
“It’s going to take someone with a bit of moxie to turn around the current political trajectory.”
Début novelist, Claire Lynch, has won the gold prize at the Nero Book Awards for A Family Matter, a novel that was inspired by the true stories of lesbian mothers…







