![]() ![]() A couple of AKC and UKC breeds are considered feists, and the names of some breeds once included the word “feist.” One still does. Neither is it true that feists haven’t made it to the show ring. Consequently, some people are of the belief that there is little to no consistency among these dogs. Today, most feists are bred solely for their hunting ability by individuals with zero interest in a show ring. ![]() The word “ feist” as it pertains to a type of dog, however, never vanished. After a while, the word was used to describe an excitable, spirited dog, and ” feisty” came to be used for people with similar temperaments. Feist and fist were also used to identify dogs, as in “fisting or foisting hounds.” Like the word, “cur,” feist came to be used as an insult in the 16th and 17th centuries, and by the 1800s, it was used to describe small hunting dogs, particularly in the American South. The meanings of fist and fisting as a way to describe the foul emission of air from one’s backside fell out of use, but it gave rise to a related word, feist, which in some contexts had the same or similar meaning as fist. Back in the day, fist, could mean one of two things: Either it referred to “a breaking of wind, a foul smell,” and “to break wind,” or it was the word for a clenched hand. The word, feisty, however, didn’t always mean what it does today, and we doubt anyone would appreciate being called “feisty” if it did.įeisty comes to us from the 15th century, a descendant of the English word, fist. We all know someone who is feisty, and probably a dog, as well. ![]()
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