释义 |
feist
feist F0070100 (fīst) also fice (fīs)n. Chiefly Southern US A small mongrel dog. [Variant of obsolete fist, short for fisting dog, from Middle English fisting, a blowing, breaking wind, from Old English fīsting; see pezd- in Indo-European roots.]feist (faɪst) ninformal dialect US a small dogfeist (faɪst) n. Chiefly Dial. a small mongrel dog, esp. one that is spirited or pugnacious. [1760–70; compare (from 16th century) contemptuous epithets for a dog (present participle of fist to break wind, late Middle English)] ThesaurusNoun | 1. | feist - a nervous belligerent little mongrel dogficecur, mutt, mongrel - an inferior dog or one of mixed breed |
feist
Synonyms for feistnoun a nervous belligerent little mongrel dogSynonymsRelated Words |