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Definitions: Feisty |
FeistyAdjective1. Showing courage; "the champion is faced with a feisty challenger". 2. Irritable and looking for trouble; "too touchy to make judicious decisions". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "feisty" was first used: 1896. (references) |
Synonyms: FeistySynonyms: plucky (adj), spunky (adj), touchy (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Feisty |
| English words defined with "feisty": plucky ♦ spunky. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Short feisty fella, nervous and quick, got a messed-up lower lip. (True Grit; writing credit: Charles Portis; Marguerite Roberts) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Feisty First Date (1997) | |
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Lynne Cheney | Well, I think, usually if there were such rumors, all it would take is for him to come out, and, you know, be on a television program or make a speech. I noticed this morning in the paper he was described as fit and feisty. |
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| "Feisty" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 86.67% of the time. "Feisty" is used about 15 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 86.67% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Noun (singular) | 13.33% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 15 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "feisty": feisty touchy. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
feisty go | 13 |
feisty | 9 |
back computer feisty go histort in its make this | 8 |
feisty leraye | 8 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "feisty"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
German | lebhaft (agile, animated, bouncy, breezy, brisk, briskly, chirpy, eager, fresh, frisky, gay, lively, mercurial, mobile, quick, quicksilver, spiritedly, sprightly, vivace, vivacious, vivid, vividly). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | eistyfay храбрый (brave, courageous, gallant, high-hearted, lion-hearted, man of courage, nervy, redoubtable, redoubted, spunky, valiant). (various references) | ||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Middle English | 1100-1500 | fysten, fisten. (various references) |
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Misspellings | |
"Feisty" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Beisty, faisty, fasty, feastly, feasty, featy, feety, feinty, feis, feist, festi, festy, feyest, fiest, fiesty, fisety, fistey. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "feisty" (pronounced fī"stē) |
| 3 | -s t ē | amnesty, angioplasty, Beastie, bloodthirsty, Christie, Christy, crusty, dishonesty, dusty, dynasty, frosty, gusty, hasty, honesty, lusty, majesty, misty, modesty, musty, nasty, rusty, sixty, tasty, testy, thirsty, travesty, trusty, twisty. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-f-i-s-t-y" | |
-1 letter: feist, yetis. | |
-2 letters: efts, fets, fist, fits, seif, sift, site, stey, stye, ties, tyes, yeti. | |
-3 letters: efs, eft, fet, fey, fie, fit, ifs, its, sei, set, sit, sty, tie, tis, tye, yes, yet. | |
-4 letters: ef, es, et, if, is, it, si, ti, ye. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-f-i-s-t-y" | |
+1 letter: testify. | |
+2 letters: esterify, flytiers, stellify, typifies. | |
+3 letters: biosafety, demystify, fayalites, festively, festivity, intensify, lifestyle, mystified, mystifier, mystifies, safetying, typifiers. | |
+4 letters: flyweights, lifestyles, manifestly, mystifiers, spitefully, stepfamily, stupefying, testifying. | |
+5 letters: demystified, demystifies, esterifying, facetiously, faithlessly, feasibility, festinately, fruitlessly, misidentify, platyfishes, shiftlessly, specificity, stellifying, superfluity. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 65 69 73 74 79 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. . .. ... - -.--. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01100101 01101001 01110011 01110100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F e i s t y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0065 0069 0073 0074 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)407175858691 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Spoken 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Translations: Ancient 12. Derivations | 13. Rhymes 14. Anagrams 15. Orthography 16. Bibliography |
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