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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
feisty
 
SYLLABICATION:feist·y
PRONUNCIATION:  fst
ADJECTIVE:Inflected forms: feist·i·er, feist·i·est
1. Touchy; quarrelsome. 2. Full of spirit or pluck; frisky or spunky. See Regional Notes at andiron, feist.
ETYMOLOGY:From feist.
OTHER FORMS:feisti·ness —NOUN
 
 
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