Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Touchy; quarrelsome.
- adj. Full of spirit or pluck; frisky or spunky. See Regional Notes at andiron, feist.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Same as fusty.
Wiktionary
- adj. Tenacious, energetic, spunky.
- adj. Belligerent; prepared to stand and fight, especially in spite of relatively small stature or some other disadvantage.
- adj. Easily offended and ready to bicker.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. quick to take offense
- adj. showing courage
Etymologies
- From feist. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The word feisty might be used to describe this beauty.”
“USATODAY. com - Red Wings outlast Flames in feisty Game 4”
“Guess what happens when you call a feisty 3 year old "Newt's goober"?”
“In different families the same behavior will be defined as feisty or rude, sensitive or cowardly, endearing or irresponsible.”
“It really boosts my self esteem to know that I am so much better than the nastiness you call 'feisty'!”
“Palin's burst onto the national political scene energized the Republican base and she quickly became known as a feisty "hockey mom" who throughout her short political life was known as a reformer not afraid to take”
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“Republican base and she quickly became known as a feisty "hockey mom" who throughout her short political life was known as a reformer not afraid to take”
WN.com - Articles related to Lawyer says Iran clears French woman of spying
“On the other hand, Cambridge University art historian Alyce Mahon -- often described in print as "feisty" -- has an agenda.”
“Bruckheimer told MTV that audiences can expect a lot of humor from Cruz's character and called her "feisty" -- confirming that she will be playing a Spanish character which is perfect considering she's ...”
“From the pulpit yesterday Lisa told great and funny stories about a woman many called feisty though as Lisa said "feisty" didn't come close to expressing it.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘feisty’.
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Headlines & Newsmakers
frugality, environment, extinction, bible, killer, jazz, cloning, dead, god, moon, global warming, bailout and 340 more...
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EN-HU - important words for a HU inte...
Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
abalone, abrasive, abstractionist, abstruse, abysmal, academia, accessibility, accessible, acclimate, accolade, accompanist, achiever and 1469 more...
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Y
What a -Y does to an otherwise common, dull word
zany, waxy, wavy, arty, chewy, bony, boxy, cozy, nosy, foxy, wiry, junky and 321 more...
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Breaking free from "I before E"
Words that have an I after an E after a letter that's not C.
sheik, seize, weird, foreign, caffeine, apartheid, deity, heifer, leisure, being, either, height and 30 more...
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gre2
aberrant, aberration, aboveboard, abrasive, abstemious, acme, admonish, affable, affluent, alacrity, allegory, alleviate and 1901 more...
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intueri's Words
inveigle, dolorous, archly, feckless, resplendent, concatenation, peripatetic, delightful, cookie, fey, ephemeral, effervescent and 347 more...
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Favorites
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sort of sexy
pressure, press, urgency, squeezing, influence, compel, push, tease, thrust, full, drive, urge on and 99 more...
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♏ Mischievous tidbits ♏
Just those skew words wherein craftiness propagates.
shenanigans, malicious, feisty, rebellious, hullabaloo, shifty-eyed, crafty, mischievous, ragamuffins, goons
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bilby's Words
pandemic, whirl, guffaw, ethereal, feisty, dunt, ephemeral, pule, flipergebet, prink, maunder, gammon and 1023 more...
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kalidas's Words
crepuscular, mellifluous, ephemeral, diaphanous, zeitgeist, geisterfahrer, infinite, eternal, idyllic, azure, reminiscent, oblivion and 521 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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Worthy Wordie
words learnt from the Internet
unthink, meme, logophile, netiquette, onomatopoeia, singularity, oed, johnson's dictionary, man friday, lewis carroll, ontology, pro bono and 143 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, F
felony, frolic, fend, fuselage, farthingale, freewheeling, frigorific, flummery, fancypants, felsitic, flagstone, flageolet and 295 more...
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curligirli0's Words
crapulous, swish, shiatsu, zen, xenoglossy, nincompoop, loquacious, pianissimo, onomatopoeia, imperturbable, silky, hosanas and 379 more...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (F)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
faery, fairy cross, fairy ring, falcon, fare-thee-well, farewell-summer, farthing, faun, fawn, felicitous, felicity, fencing and 109 more...
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