feist
pronunciation
How to pronounce feist in British English:
UK [faɪst]
How to pronounce feist in American English:
US [faɪst]
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- Noun:
- a nervous belligerent little mongrel dog
Word Origin
- feist (n.)
- also fist, "a breaking wind, foul smell, fart," mid-15c. (Old English had present participle fisting, glossing Latin festiculatio), a general West Germanic word with cognates in Middle Dutch veest, Dutch vijst; see feisty.
Example
- 1. Feist publications , inc. , v. rural telephone service co.
- 2. Feist cover " limit to your love " works in just enough of dubstep 's bass flutter and snare snap .
- 3. The canadian recording industry association supports c-32 ; music artists such as broken social scene and feist , however , oppose making it easier to sue fans for file sharing , which this bill would do .