feisty

[MaryAnnSmotheredinchocolate]

Am sick of the over use of this word...

And since we are in Pedants' Corner, Sir Paul ... 'complementary'???

Ebony and Ivory are complementary on your keyboard; but no one could be complimentary about that song.

(As you your true identity, did you ever render me feisty by the use of pigmyising smalling salts?)

SirPaul is onebat. So obvious.

oh my giddy goddy, I was sorely tempted to stay as SirP after my astonishing lapse.

But I don't want to have a cat's arse for a mouth.

...or for an ex-wife

Onebat - you should be very careful when you name change to discuss your septic, boily bottom in the tmi threads.

WHAAAAAT?

Sorry to out you.

i was just googling for a comedy link to freak you out Swedes, and I rather wish I hadn't. Like the time I looked at my father's forensic science book when I was 12.

I googled for threadworm images a couple of times and came up with at least one that was unpostably awful. That involved bottoms too.

And now the feisty thread has come up next to 'gutted about my ring' lololololololol

Threadie - Sir Paul Mc Cartney's mouth after a good meal of threadworms?

oh oh oh

Interesting thread. I like reading crime fiction with strong central female characters, Sara Paretsky is probably one of the best known authors of such books, or Sue Grafton. The heroines of such books are often described as feisty, and I didn't see an issue until I heard a crime writer speak about the use of the word and she pointed out that its original use also implied "full of hot air" and that it also had an implication of being full of something rather smelly. And also a lot of the points made earlier in this thread. So I stopped using the word positively, she really made me think and put me off it.

Swedes: very much so, though vermiccelli(sp)would be strictly more accurate.