feist
or fist
[ fahyst ]
noun
verb (used without object)
South Midland U.S. to prance or strut about: Look at him feist around in his new clothes.
Origin of feist
1First recorded in 1760–70; compare (from 16th century) fisting hound, fisting cur, as contemptuous epithets for any kind of dog (present participle of fist “to break wind,” late Middle English; compare Old English fisting “breaking wind,” Middle Low German vīst, German Fist “fart”); def. 2 is perhaps a back formation from feisty
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How to use feist in a sentence
Fact is, if yer've 'ad to do wiv gas an' water pipes, yer can fyce anyfing.
The Foundations (Fourth Series Plays) | John GalsworthyBy the way, who's the chap with the black mustache a-stragglin' all over 'is fyce?
The Riddle of the Frozen Flame | Mary E. HanshewWhen Wickens sawr he couldn't escype, he opened his can, took out an eel and slapped it over Boots' fyce.
Two Knapsacks | John CampbellI down't 'old with sin myself, mind you, but I down't believe in cuttin' off your nose to spite someone else's fyce.
The Foolish Lovers | St. John G. ErvineThis mornin' they was lyin' down flat as your fyce—empty, m'm, every one of 'em.
Audrey Craven | May Sinclair
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