名詞 feist:

1. a nervous belligerent little mongrel dog
   同義詞：fice

feist

n.Chiefly Southern U.S. （名詞）【多用于美國(guó)南部】
A small mongrel dog.
一種雜種小狗

來(lái)源：
Variant of obsolete fist
廢語(yǔ) fist的變體
short for fisting dog
fisting dog的簡(jiǎn)寫
from Middle English fisten [to break wind] * see pezd-
源自 中古英語(yǔ) fisten [放屁] *參見 pezd-

<注釋>Feist, also fice, is one of several regional terms for a small mixed-breed dog or mongrel. Used throughout the Midland and Southern states, feist connotes a snappy, nervous, belligerent little dog—hence the derived adjective feisty, meaning .touchy, quarrelsome, or spirited,. applicable to animals and to people.
Feist， 也作 fice， 是對(duì)一種小的混血狗或譜系不名的狗的最初幾種叫法之一。用于英國(guó)中部地帶和南部地區(qū)， feist 意指一種暴躁的、不安的或好戰(zhàn)的小狗——由此而得的形容詞 feisty， 意思是.暴躁的、好爭(zhēng)吵的或者勇猛的，.指人和動(dòng)物