英语词汇feisty的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

feisty. Oddly enough, the Old English word fist, meaning to break wind, or a foul odor, gave us our word feisty for a touchy, quarrelsome person, or someone with a lot of spirit or spunk. By at least the late 1600s fisting in the form of a fisting hound was used in England as a contemptuous term for a small dog. Feisting hound, a variant form of fisting hound, came to be the name of any small mongrel dog in the southern U.S., such dogs soon being called feists. Because these small dogs were often lively and temperamental, their name suggested the adjective feisty and by the end of the 19th century this adjective was ap- plied to people who acted like them.

词汇	feisty
词源	feisty. Oddly enough, the Old English word fist, meaning to break wind, or a foul odor, gave us our word feisty for a touchy, quarrelsome person, or someone with a lot of spirit or spunk. By at least the late 1600s fisting in the form of a fisting hound was used in England as a contemptuous term for a small dog. Feisting hound, a variant form of fisting hound, came to be the name of any small mongrel dog in the southern U.S., such dogs soon being called feists. Because these small dogs were often lively and temperamental, their name suggested the adjective feisty and by the end of the 19th century this adjective was ap- plied to people who acted like them.
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