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Feisty

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Adjective

1. feisty, plucky, spunky

showing courage

Example Sentences:
'the champion is faced with a feisty challenger'

2. feisty, huffy, thin-skinned, touchy

quick to take offense

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Feisty

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adjectiveWord forms: feistier or feistiest informal
1. 
lively, resilient, and self-reliant
2. US and Canadian
frisky
3. US and Canadian
irritable

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Feisty

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adjectiveWord forms: ˈfeistier or ˈfeistiest
Informal, Dialectal
full of spirit
; specif.,
a. 
quarrelsome, aggressive, belligerent, etc.
b. 
lively, energetic, spunky, etc.

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Feisty

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adj. feist·i·er, feist·i·est
1. Full of spirit or determination; plucky or spunky: "Feisty, smart, and courageous child protagonists ... populate [her] fictional world" (Carolyn L. Shute). See Note at andiron.
2. Quarrelsome or aggressive: "A bunch of guys got tipsy ... One of them got feisty and starting swinging punches at the others" (Didi Emmons).

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