"full of spirit, fiery, courageous," 1660s, from mettle + -some (1). Related: Mettlesomely; mettlesomeness.
metropolitan
metropolitanism
metrosexual
-metry
mettle
mettlesome
*meue-
mew
mewl
mews
Mexican
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