Feisty Definition
Belligerent; prepared to stand and fight, especially in spite of relatively small stature or some other disadvantage.
Other Word Forms of Feisty
Adjective
Origin of Feisty
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1896, American, feist (“small, aggressive dog”) + -y; the term feist (now rare) itself originally meant “stink”, and earlier “fart”, from Middle English, from Old English, from Proto-Germanic, presumably from Proto-Indo-European – see feist for details.
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From feist
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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