Definitions
a nervous belligerent little mongrel dog
Word origin
Earliest sense is “fart”, and later “stink” as abbreviation for fysting cur “stinking dog” (1520s). From Middle English fysten (mid-15th century), from Old English. Cognate with Middle Dutch veest and Dutch vijst. Possibly from Proto-Germanic *fistiz (“a fart”), presumably from Proto-Indo-European *pesd-, though this is disputed.
Used in a sentence
“Sultry Joan Collins says she likes her men feisty and her beau Peter Holm is full of feist.”
“She looked at him, all eagerness and trust, full of feist and fun, unlike any woman he'd met before. After only a few hours, he felt as if he'd known her forever.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Scrappy small canine”5 letters
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