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Definition of Feistiness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Feistiness
Literary usage of Feistiness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1896)
"To persuade, or endeavour to persuade. It is one of Sir Thomas Browne's words
become obsolete. Feist, Feistiness. ..."
2. The Vocabulary of East Anglia: An Attempt to Record the Vulgar Tongue of the by Robert Forby (1830)
"The same as vagary, o. E. FEISTY, adj. fusty; but fusty is the corruption.
Feisty is the original, and a most expressive word. FEIST, Feistiness, s. ..."
3. A Glossary of Words Used in East Anglia: Founded on that of Forby : with by Walter Rye, Robert Forby (1895)
"To persuade, or endeavour to persuade. It is one of Sir Thomas Browne's words
become obsolete. Feist, Feistiness. ..."
4. Make a Difference: A Spectacular Breakthrough in the Fight Against Poverty by Gary MacDougal (2005)
"I sensed a feistiness in her. After I had gotten her a Coke, we sat across from
each other at the corner of the table. She stared at her Coke and the empty ..."
5. Larue's Maneuvers by James Isaiah Gabbe (2007)
"I'm gonna' miss your feistiness. C'mon. Things'll work out. Let's go shoot some
hoops." Piatelli spotted me entering the officers club and ducked out the ..."
6. Much Bigger Than Grownups: Chronicles of a Native South Africanby Shelley Wood Gauld by Shelley Wood Gauld (2006)
"... feistiness and resilience. "A 'Skinhead.' A real radical—obviously," I thought.
As we filed into our first lecture, I heard the two Afrikaans Mare ..."
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