Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - feisty
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Feisty
feisty
adjective (feistier; -est) Date: 1896 1. chiefly Southern & Midland a. full of nervous energy ; fidgety b. touchy, quarrelsome c. exuberantly frisky 2. having or showing a lively aggressiveness ; spunky the movie's ~ heroine • feistiness noun
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adj. (feistier, feistiest) US sl. 1 aggressive, exuberant. 2 touchy. Derivatives feistiness n. Etymology: feist (= fist) small dog ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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If you describe someone as feisty, you mean that they are tough, independent, and spirited, often when you would not expect them to be, for example because they are old or ill. At 66, she was as feisty as ever. = spunky ADJ ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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~ adj approving having a strong, determined character and being willing to argue with people (She has the feisty image of the successful entrepreneur.) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- 1896, Amer.Eng. from feist "small dog," from fice, fist Amer.Eng. 1805 "small dog," short for fysting curre "stinking cur," attested from 1529, from M.E. fysten, fisten "break wind" (1440), 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." ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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