Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small mongrel dog.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
fist .
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- noun US, regional a small snappy
belligerent mixed-breeddog - noun vulgar A silent (but
pungent )fart (flatus)
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a nervous belligerent little mongrel dog
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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thedayhascome commented on the word feist
/FEIST/ n · A silent fart.
August 7, 2008
amacleod03 commented on the word feist
A person or animal that is irascible, touchy, thin-skinned, or bad-tempered. Alternatively, a person of little worth.
When you look at the etymology of the term, the story takes a twist. Feist or fice or fyst originates from the Anglo-Saxon word fistan, which means to fart. Despite one suggestion that the name was applied to the hunting dogs because they “run as if breaking the wind�? (whatever that might mean) there is a much more likely possibility. The small dogs were originally referred to as a fysting curres or “stinking curs.�?
Davis, Donald, and Jeffrey Stotik. 1992. Feist or Fiction? The Squirrel Dog of the Southern Mountains. Journal of Popular Culture 26 (3):193-301.
July 11, 2009
hernesheir commented on the word feist
Breaking wind in a suppressed manner. --Dr. Jamieson's Scottish Dictionary and Supplement, 1841.
June 25, 2011