AIBU to know what this word means?

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Today I used the word 'moxie' in a sentence and in turn the room looked at me like . AIBU or is that an unusual word?

If it was a brand, what would you associate it with?

The only time I've ever heard this word used before was as a suggestion for a brand name in a meeting.

Do I KNOW you, OP?!

Haha Cauliflowerbalti, what a weird coincidence that would be!

It's a great word. My granny used to use it to compliment me when I was a kid so it has a fond place in my heart
I use it periodically to describe people but haven't had any weird responses.

People can be weirdly anti-intellectual about vocabulary though. When I hear a word I don't know I usually ask and then am pleased to have learned something new. However I have a colleague who would take me using a word she didn't know as a personal insult.

It is more along the lines of Coca Cola, root beer, Dr Pepper etc than orange Fanta, sprite etc, but it really is it’s own flavour. I like to think of my attempts to drinking Irn Bru here as similar to a Brit drinking Moxie

Yes that's how I think of it too. DS loves both Moxie and Irn Bru. He also has a Moxie sweatshirt he wears constantly...

It makes me think of the cat in The Subtle Knife.

Then I think vaguely of Moxibustion or amoxicillin so something medical.

It's an American thing isn't it, I only heard it recently though an American friend of a friend named her daughter Moxie and then it was explained to me what it meant

I had a similar look when I used "pedantic" when speaking to DP. "why can't you just say picky!? What kind of word is pedantic?"

I was a bit . He wouldn't believe me when I said that pedantic is a pretty common word.

As for moxie. Never heard of it!

I came on to say that it’s the brand name for an American soda but I see Wicked beat me to it.

(Although I live in the South so I’m definitely not a Yankee)

My understanding is that the definition of Moxie as “daring” or “spirited” are due to advertising campaigns related to the soda in the 1920s.

It’s also a chain of restaurants in the US.

I thought it meant Amoxycillin and was perhaps a coded word for something for chlamydia. At least, I thought that until I read the thread...

Dear me. A chain of restaurants.

Moxie is a old fashioned word for gumption. That girl has moxie. I would associate that brand with nineties tween mags.

In Australia they are brand of women’s sanitary products.