(informal)having or showing exuberance and strong determination (非正式)活跃果敢的,生气勃勃的 Hollywood doesn't have a lot of good feisty roles for girls my age. 好莱坞没多少适合我这个年龄的女孩子扮演的生气勃勃的好角色。 ■touchy and aggressive 暴躁易怒的;好斗的 he got a bit feisty by trying to hit me back. 他想要还击我,一下变得有些好斗。
派生 feistily adverb feistiness noun 语源
late 19th cent.: from earlier feist, fist 'small dog', from fisting cur or hound, a derogatory term for a lapdog, from Middle English fist 'break wind', of West Germanic origin. Compare with fizzle