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feist  /faɪst/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[fahyst] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun 1.Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S.. a small mongrel dog, esp. one that is ill-tempered; cur; mutt. –verb (used without object) 2.South Midland U.S.. to prance or strut about: Look at him feist around in his new clothes.
Also, fice, fist.

[Origin: 1760–70; cf. (from 16th cent.) fisting hound, fisting cur, as contemptuous epithets for any kind of dog (prp. of fist to break wind, late ME; cf. OE fisting breaking wind, MLG vīst, G Fist fart); (def. 2) perh. back formation from feisty]
 
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