feisty
英 ['fa?st?]
美
- adj. 活躍的；好爭吵的；煩躁不安的；堅(jiān)決而據(jù)理力爭的
助記提示
1. fart => *perd- "to break wind" => *pezd- "to fart, to break wind" => feist, feisty.
2. *pezd- (source also of Latin pedere 'break wind', whence English petard 'small bomb').
3. 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.
4. Canonical上周四發(fā)布7.04版的Ubuntu Linux，昵稱Feisty Fawn（勇敢的小花鹿，精力充沛的小鹿，活躍的小鹿）。
中文詞源
feisty 堅(jiān)決而據(jù)理力爭的縮寫自fysting curre, 臭狗，詞源同fart, 擬聲詞，放屁。后詞義褒義化。
英文詞源
- 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].
雙語例句
- 1. At 66, she was as feisty as ever.
- 66歲的她還和從前一樣精神矍鑠。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. The soldier looked incredulously at the feisty child.
- 士兵難以置信地看著這個(gè)異常頑強(qiáng)的孩子。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. He was a strong and a feisty old man.
- 他是個(gè)很堅(jiān)強(qiáng)的倔老頭.
來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)
- 4. Ms Madlala - Routledge was certainly feisty.
- 馬德拉?若勒基的確精力充沛.
來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)
- 5. A feisty girl always wins arguments.
- 一個(gè)好拚斗的女孩子時(shí)常贏爭吵.
來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)