feisty

英 ['faɪstɪ] 美

GRE

解释

adj. 活跃的；好争吵的；烦躁不安的；坚决而据理力争的

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中文词源

feisty 坚决而据理力争的

缩写自fysting curre, 臭狗，词源同fart, 拟声词，放屁。后词义褒义化。

英文词源

feisty: feisty: [19] Feisty, nowadays a colloquial Americanism for ‘quarrelsome’ or ‘spirited’, originated in Middle English as a term for a ‘farting dog’. It goes back to the now obsolete English verb fist ‘fart’, which came ultimately from Indo-European *pezd- (source also of Latin pēdere ‘break wind’, whence English petard ‘small bomb’ [16], as in ‘hoist with one’s own petard’); like *perd-, the Indo-European ancestor of English fart, this was probably of imitative origin.

In the 16th and 17th centuries the expression fisting dog, literally ‘farting dog’, was applied contemptuously to a ‘mongrel’ or ‘cur’. This eventually became shortened to feist, and (mongrels being notoriously combative) feisty was born.
=> fizzle, petard
feisty (adj.): 1896, "aggressive, exuberant, touchy," American English, with -y (2) + feist "small dog," earlier fice, fist (American English, 1805); short for fysting curre "stinking cur," attested from 1520s, with present participle of now-obsolete Middle English fysten, fisten "break wind" (mid-15c.), from Proto-Germanic *fistiz "a fart," said to be from PIE *pezd- (see fart), but there are difficulties.

The 1811 slang dictionary defines fice as "a small windy escape backwards, more obvious to the nose than ears; frequently by old ladies charged on their lap-dogs." Compare also Danish fise "to blow, to fart," and obsolete English aske-fise, "fire-tender," literally "ash-blower" (early 15c.), from an unrecorded Norse source, used in Middle English for a kind of bellows, but originally "a term of reproach among northern nations for an unwarlike fellow who stayed at home in the chimney corner" [OED].

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例句和用法

1. At 66, she was as feisty as ever.: 66岁的她还和从前一样精神矍铄。

2. The soldier looked incredulously at the feisty child.: 士兵难以置信地看着这个异常顽强的孩子。

3. He was a strong and a feisty old man.: 他是个很坚强的倔老头.

4. Ms Madlala - Routledge was certainly feisty.: 马德拉?若勒基的确精力充沛.

5. A feisty girl always wins arguments.: 一个好拚斗的女孩子时常赢争吵.