bucksome

adjective2

1. •
   Marked by bucking or bucking up; (by extension) lively; brisk; jocund.

   • Shee now begins to grow bucksome as a lightning before death. — 1608
2. •
   Spirited or lively, like a buck.

   • "Bucksome," repeated Peace, with the picture of a bucking billy goat uppermost in her mind, and wondering how a maiden could be bucksome. — 2010