feisty
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sti adjective, feist·i·er, feist·i·est.
1.
full of animation, energy, or courage; spirited; spunky; plucky: The champion is faced with a feisty challenger.
2.
ill-tempered; pugnacious.
3.
troublesome; difficult: feisty legal problems.
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| —adj , feistier, feistiest | |
| 1. | lively, resilient, and self-reliant |
| 2. | (US), (Canadian) frisky |
| 3. | (US), (Canadian) irritable |
| [C19: from dialect feist, fist small dog; related to Old English fīsting breaking wind] | |
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Feisty
is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
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Word Origin & History
feisty
1896, Amer.Eng. from feist "small dog," from fice, fist (Amer.Eng., 1805) "small dog;" short for fysting curre "stinking cur," attested from 1520s, from M.E. fysten, fisten "break wind" (mid-15c.); related to O.E. fisting "stink." The 1811 slang dictionary defines fice as "a small windy escape backwards,
more obvious to the nose than ears; frequently by old ladies charged on their lap-dogs." Cf. also Dan. fise "to blow, to fart," and obsolete English askefise, lit. "fire-blower, ash-blower," from an unrecorded O.N. source, used in M.E. for a kind of bellows, but originally "a term of reproach among northern nations for an unwarlike fellow who stayed at home in the chimney corner" [OED].
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Example sentences
Colloquial term for a feisty, overachieving player with a good motor who thrives as a kick-coverage guy.
But the band needed singers, a robust vocal outfit to tame the music's feisty bucking.
People admire badgers as feisty animals willing to go against the odds.
For the recreational angler, feisty bluefish can provide an exciting fishing experience.
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