feisty

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

feisty
    adj 1: showing courage; "the champion is faced with a feisty
           challenger" [syn: {feisty}, {plucky}, {spunky}]
    2: quick to take offense [syn: {huffy}, {thin-skinned},
       {feisty}, {touchy}]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

28 Moby Thesaurus words for "feisty":
      bearish, bitchy, cankered, cantankerous, churlish, crabbed, cranky,
      cross, cross-grained, crusty, cussed, disagreeable, excitable,
      fractious, huffish, huffy, irascible, irritable, mean, ornery,
      perverse, snappish, spiteful, spleeny, splenetic, testy, ugly,
      waspish

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