Moxie

Pronunciation

• enPR: mŏk'sÄ“, IPA: /ˈmÉ’ksi/
• Rhymes: -É’ksi

Origin

From the name of an American patent medicine first manufactured about 1885.

Full definition of moxie

Noun

1. backbone, determination and fortitude
2. initiative or skill
• 1971, John Updike, Rabbit Redux, As a girl she had speed and a knock-kneed moxie at athletics, and might have done more with it if she hadn't harvested all the glory already.

Anagrams

• oxime