Feisty

Adjective

 * 1) Tenacious, energetic, spunky.
 * 2) Belligerent; prepared to stand and fight, especially in spite of relatively small stature or some other disadvantage.
 * 3)  Easily offended and ready to bicker.

Thesaurus
bearish, bitchy, cankered, cantankerous, churlish, crabbed, cranky, cross, cross-grained, crusty, cussed, disagreeable, excitable, fractious, huffish, huffy, irascible, irritable, mean, ornery, perverse, snappish, spiteful, spleeny, splenetic, testy, ugly, waspish

Etymology
1896, American, ; the term feist: (now rare) itself originally meant “stink”, and earlier “fart”, from, from , from , presumably from – see feist: for details.

Derived terms

 * feistily
 * feistiness

Translations

 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * German: ,


 * Italian: ,
 * Swedish:


 * Dutch: strijdlustig,, vechtlustig
 * French: ,
 * German: streitsüchtig, kampflustig


 * Italian:
 * Swedish: stridslysten, stridbar