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单词 feisty
释义 feisty, a. U.S. slang (orig. dial.).|ˈfaɪstɪ|
[f. feist = fist n.2 3 + -y1.]
Aggressive, excitable, touchy.
1896, etc. in Wentworth Amer. Dial. Dict. s.v. Ficety, etc.1913H. Kephart Our Southern Highlanders 94 Feisty means when a feller's allers wigglin' about, wantin' ever'body to see him, like a kid when the preacher comes.1926E. M. Roberts Time of Man 152 That-there feisty bay mare jumped straight upwards and broke the tongue outen the plow.1965‘D. Shannon’ Death-Bringers (1966) xiii. 162 Luther gets a little feisty after a few drinks, and he began to argue with him.1968J. Potts Trash Stealer xiii. 148 He couldn't shake her loose—she hung on to his arm, feisty as a terrier.
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