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Feisty vs Foisty - What's the difference?

feisty | foisty |

As adjectives the difference between feisty and foisty

is that feisty is tenacious, energetic, spunky while foisty is mouldy, musty, fusty.

feisty

English

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • Tenacious, energetic, spunky.
  • Belligerent; prepared to stand and fight, especially in spite of relatively small stature or some other disadvantage.
  • Easily offended and ready to bicker.

    • Derived terms

    * feistily * feistiness

    References

    English words not following the I before E except after C rule

    foisty

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • mouldy, musty, fusty
  • * 1669 , John Worlidge, Systema agriculturae: The Mystery of Husbandry Discovered :
    • Thrash not Wheat to keep untill March, lest it prove foisty .
  • * 2000 , Samuel Bamford, Martin Hewitt, Robert Poole, The Diaries of Samuel Bamford , page 2:
    • Papers 150 years old, mildewed, rotten and stinking like muck; and mouldy foisty old books dating from 1638.

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