Word Study
feisty
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective feisty has 2 senses
- feisty(s = adj.all) plucky, spunky - showing courage; "the champion is faced with a feisty challenger"
- feisty(s = adj.all) huffy, thin-skinned, touchy - quick to take offense; Array
OXFORD DICTIONARY
feisty, adj. (feistier, feistiest) US sl.
1 aggressive, exuberant.
2 touchy.
1 aggressive, exuberant.
2 touchy.
Derivative
feistiness n.
Etymology
feist (= fist) small dog
THESAURUS
feisty
bearish, bitchy, cankered, cantankerous, churlish, crabbed, cranky, cross, cross-grained, crusty, cussed, disagreeable, excitable, fractious, huffish, huffy, irascible, irritable, mean, ornery, perverse, snappish, spiteful, spleeny, splenetic, testy, ugly, waspish
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