Definition of "feist" [feist]

• Chiefly Southern U.S. A small mongrel dog. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "I definitely know the difference between some one's coon dog, bird dog, even a feist squirrel dog and a feral dog, and have recovered and returned many of the above."
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• "When The Player was in his prime, he could be as full of feist as Cagney grapefruiting a mouthy dame, as charming as Tracy sparring with Hepburn, as folksy as Jimmy Stewart in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, takin 'on the scalawags and stickin' up for the little guy, see?"