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Feisty didn’t start out meaning what it means today!
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Posted on July 17, 2008 · Filed Under Lessons
Feisty didn’t start out meaning what it means today!
Remember to vote for your teacher over at the Best Weekend Ever Website.
You can vote up to 5 times a day.
Posted on July 17, 2008 · Filed Under Lessons
your the best:)
Remember the dog in the movie “10″…?
MARINA - I’d like to request a word often associated with “FEISTY.” The word is “FRISKY.” Where the heck does FRISKY come from?????? You MUST investigate.
Wow 420 comments b4 mine. I’d smoke to that but I don’t smoke.
“If I tell you you have a great body will you hold it against me?”
from Joe Dirt the movie
Hi Marina,
I am Greek and i would like to give you a interesting word for searching… The word is : Πυγμαχία and it’s greek , but believe me the meaning of this word is realy interesting.Thank you for your time.Greetings from Greece.
one day when i am out of my flat …into a bigger place i will get one…..
i like bigger dogs like Labs and German sheppards…
Could you please tell me what is the meaning of the word DILLIGAF & where did it come from
I have a phrase request: how did “take the cake” come to mean “unbelievable” or “really impressive”?
Marina,
I’m sure since you have started posting videos you’ve had one of these- a stalker. I would love to know its origin. Did it come from people hiding ot the fields of corn stalks?
Shindig shindig shindig shindig shindig shindig shindig BOB BARKER!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Where did the term shindig come from? I’m thinking it has something to do with a week end pool. Thats where you dig a hole all week then put a tarp in it and fill it with water so you have a pool to swim in and it costs you next to nothing. But thats just my theory, tho its not based on anything in particular.
And just out of curiosity when you dream do you speak one language in them or is it just a big mess of them with people talking to one another in different languages?
Marina, in the antebellum period in American history I believe that women who had “the vapors” had the same affliction.
The story about the lap dogs reminds me of an old joke -
A woman was invited to dinner and as she ate the family dog, “Rover” sat under her, hoping for some scraps from the table. The food didn’t agree with the woman and she passed gas. Each time she farted everyone at he table looked at her and she looked at the dog and disapprovingly said “Rover!”. Finally after a particularly long and violent attack of flatulence the owner of the dog looked at poor old Rover and said “Rover! Damnit! Get out from under her chair before she shits on you!”
“kinky” as in: she’s a very kinky girl
Where did the term Lingerie come from and who came up with it?
i have an understanding of where it came from but before i go posting it about as a comment to your cracker theories, where did honky come from?
testing
haha i have a new word for you… ready
conglomerate
haha iv got no idea what it means but im sure you do.. haha XD
thanks.. hurry up and do the next vid lul
Are you having another bad up load day
its number 14
15
hi i’m new i’m wondering if u could do a a video for this:
one night stand
thanks!
Marina has an alarm clock and a plant on her one night stand.
Hey Jack where you at hidding and waiting
i love my siberian dog
How do you move up to 24th and yet the count doesn’t go up.
Must be a new math.
I found you a wetsuit for your gravatar. but wait to after the new video or you will miss out on trying to be first.
http://www.cleanlinesurf.com/home.php?cat=613
I’ve often wondered about the word “disgruntled”. It’s funny. It’s a bad thing to be, but you never hear about anyone being “gruntled”. So why is DISgruntled bad? Where did it come from?
The Feisty video is up to number 30 utube only 6 more to go.
Hi capman, I got your message below. Glad it is working OK….
Do views count if we watch the video on this website?
No only if you vote on both sites
yes
I guess I got to go watch them on youtube then. Although it is pretty slow, for me that is.
you ment views right…? not ratings like capman is saying…
Yessir views.
well….then it doesn’t matter if you watch it here or on youtube. they both count.
Oh ok
Sorry for the miss info.
Its all good were all neighbors around here in Marinaville.
I like that Marinaville
I would so move to live there.
Think she has enough room in her apartment for all of us
To be honest, I would have no problem squeezing in with Marina. Haha
Hey Hey!
awesome videos!
you are a really good teacher even though you’re not American
I want to request the word Tequila!
I’m from Mexico and I really want to know
why people call this alcoholic drink like that … is that possible ?
thank you! (: …
By the way, I saw that video about your appearance on that show
on TV and I saw the comment in Spanish .. hahaha
wow that’s a long text and that person is really in love with you! xP ..
take care and I hope to see that video about Tequila
Piimco
Tactlessness
Are good teachers always American?
Who said she was running for president.
She is American
Russian American 
Despite that, she could not be elected as president–one must be American by birth.
Russia gave her to us as a gift; we were gracious enough not to tell ‘em they’d made a huge mistake giving up a national treasure…
Amen Brother…
Hi teacher.
In response to your question, I personally prefer bigger dogs. I have a basset hound myself, and though she isn’t very tall, she is quite robust and can shoulder-tackle most taller dogs with ease.
Now, I would like to request that you research the word “appalling” for me, since it is one of my favorite words, and I have often wondered where it originated, and whether it has anything to do with the word “pallid”?
Thank you, and keep up the great work.
Student out.
Hi Marina
I like big dogs and small dogs, in fact, I just like dogs
x for teacher x
May I request the word “Pimp” because it sounds funny
and I thought the word was just a slang word, but it’s a real word! I also noticed its been getting popular ever since that 50 cent song. Haha. Thanks. 
slang words are real words …
Well let me correct myself… I thought the word was just slang by youngsters, but its used everyday by everyone for quite a while…
Happy sir?
Oh yeah, I’d prefer small dogs like Kobe because if they were big dogs, it would probably own me.
Plus, I’ve had some bad experiences with bigger dogs 
cool shirt
Yeah, and isn’t that the same shirt from the 5th element video if I remember correctly?
where did the saying “cold blooded killer” come from and i like little dogs but not feisty ones
where did the saying “cold blooded killer”
Hey Marina, is there a way to watch your video on here on high quality like on the youtube page? I love high quality education.
Hi protac6, I hope you don’t mind if I answer. Maybe Marina can add other details also.
You can watch many (not all) YT videos in High Quality by appending this code &fmt=18 to the end of the URL of the video you are watching. So, if the Std video fails to play properly and there is no HQ link, you can add the &fmt=18.
For an embedded video like the one above, Marina would need to add the following codes in two places; &ap=%2526fmt%3D18
I tested it and it works on my local embedded page. The HQ video file size is doubled from the Std video file size.
Marina may have reasons do this or not do this. However, when and if there is another video playing issue with a video due to YT server cache problems, Marina can add this code which will pull the video from another server.
Here are some blogs explaining the embedded HQ codes.
Blog1
Blog2
Thanks breh.
Hi pedantickarl, I did find a location on my fire fox browser that was set for the western setting. I set it to the one you said. So far no problems.
Saw an audi r8 today.. first time I have seen one, first thing I thought of was marina getting into an r8
Where did the phrase “Nip it in the Bud” come from?
Hi Marina,
My word is quadrophinia, i heard it from an old rave tune and maybe an old movie, but have no idea of it’s meaning!! Please can you help?xx
I think it would be good if you did a video on prefixes and suffixes so we could better understand them. Punctuation as well.
Have a good day, Marina and fellow students,
Shawn M. Norris
I’d like to request a word-troglodite-TY.
Troglodite by-Jimmy Castor Band
What we’re gonna do right here is go back, way back, back into time.
When the only people that existed were troglodytes…cave men…
cave women…Neanderthal…troglodytes. Let’s take the average
cave man at home, listening to his stereo. Sometimes he’d get up,
try to do his thing. He’d begin to move, something like this:
“Dance…dance”. When he got tired of dancing alone, he’d look
in the mirror: “Gotta find a woman gotta find a woman gotta find a
woman gotta find a woman”. He’d go down to the lake where all the
women would be swimming or washing clothes or something. He’d look
around and just reach in and grab one. “Come here…come here”.
He’d grab her by the hair. You can’t do that today, fellas, cause
it might come off. You’d have a piece of hair in your hand and she’d
be swimming away from you (ha-ha). This one woman just lay there,
wet and frightened. He said: “Move…move”. She got up. She was a
big woman. BIG woman. Her name was Bertha. Bertha Butt. She was one
of the Butt sisters. He didn’t care. He looked up at her and said:
“Sock it to me sock it to me sock it to me sock it to me sock it to me
sock it to me sock it to me sock it to me!”. She looked down on him.
She was ready to crush him, but she began to like him. She said
“I’ll sock it to ya, Daddy”. He said: “Wha?”. She said
“I’ll sock it to ya, Daddy”. You know what he said? He started it way
back then. I wouldn’t lie to you. When she said
“I’ll sock it to ya, Daddy” he said “Right on! Right on! Hotpants!
Hotpants! Ugh…ugh…ugh”.
Hi Marina,
My word request is “After-math”. As in the “after-math” of war or a disaster. I think it has maybe something to do with calculating a monetary cost involved after an event but I’m not sure. I’m looking forward to your investigation. I love this class!!
-Stayawake
For what it’s worth Led Zeppelin(and others I’ll guess) said “the pain of war cannot exceed the woe of aftermath”.
I think the word “aftermath” came LONG before Led Zeppelin.
I dunno how many words/phrases Zep may have coined but they sure were good at using the ones they knew.
Requesting to know the origin of the phrase “COLD TURKEY”. A client of mine quit smoking “cold turkey” and now that I am a student of yours, I pay more attention to these odd little phrases that we say every day!! See what you are doing to us
So why are cold turkeys associated with quitting something addictive? I’d really like to know.
No cheating people…don’t go answering this before Marina does
BoArgMir
why the { mean } word mean : the bad person in US , and its mean : the person who don’t like spend money and like the money so much in UK
Mean is also a nasty person in the uk as well
Dear Teach,
Homework: Little dogs (toy poodles!) are best but a big Labrador or a retriever is wonderful when outdoors hunting, hiking and running at the beach. Like most of your fans I love dogs!
A request: As you no doubt know, dogs are known in the United States as, “Man’s best friend.” I was wondering where this expression originated. I once heard that it came from the argument made by an eloquent lawyer in a case over the wrongful killing of a dog but I don’t know if this is true. The quote, attributable to a former U.S. senator is, “The one absolutely unselfish friend that a person may have in this selfish world, the one that will never desert you, the one that never proves ungrateful, and never treacherous is a dog.”
Das Vadanya, Q
I can’t get You Tube to play any videos, is it just me?
It’s okay now
NOt having problems with you tube…just watched your fart link. That was interestingly funny.
I hate dogs
Flatulence humor http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bk8g3pOvTTQ
That was a good one really funny
I try to make you laugh at least once a day.
we always had small dogs
`elliott
what does dictatorship mean
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictatorship
If you’ll go back to the sisyphean video and scroll down the page you will see a lot of arguing going on. Marina put out a message on there about she was loosing members because of the arguing. So I guess some of the ones who thought they were the problem left. This has been going on for a while, but it was getting worse. I quit twice myself and the members and Marina asked me to come back. The site has gotten 100 percent better with out all of the tension.
In one video, Marina called that cheating to go looking things up before she got a chance to teach the students..
BoArgMir
he asked what does dictatorship means, not the origin of the word
Ok, Foxbow15…..you are right…..I guess he did just want the definition, not the origin.
BoArgMir
Hello BoArgMir and foxbow15 my favorite SkyPilot to be. (ref: The Animals),
Please don’t take this as an argument to take away from both of your positions. If I may, I would like to offer another way of looking at this.
Many of us, including me, when we are in a hurry or English is our second language, we don’t speak precisely. I am always having to revise my words and try to chose another word to be understood correctly.
I think the original request “… dictatorship mean” probably infers the origin and contextual meaning instead of just a simple dictionary definition as it is fair to assume that all of us are capable of using wiki and other dictionaries. Sometimes, the dfinitions make my eyes gloss over.
It is fair to assume that most of us have difficulty in finding the origins of words. Even with the OED, it sometimes is not that easy, so I have tons of respect for Marina for doing what she does, especially in a video format. There are also historical perspectives, disagreements and many other issues in finding word origins.
I have learned a ton from Marina’s videos. By the way my rice donations have improved. I even know what a quince is now due to one of Marina’s video.
So, I must agree with BoArgMir’s comment, let’s not spoil it for Marina by answering word requests, whether precisely stated or not. Marina has also mentioned it in comments many times before not to give away the answer as then she would not have a video to do.
Making jokes and teasing of words is kewl as it always makes me laugh. Love you both….
In Latin a DICTATOR is the man who says EGO DICO “I say” and DICTUM EST “it has been said” so don’t discuss my saying and obey my orders otherwise I will spank you and even more !
I have an interesting question about dogs and cats. Why do dogs and cats smell each others butts when they get around each other? I know this sounds kinda nasty to ask, butt it is a dog, fart or feisty video. It’s kinda related.
Capman911–
I think that is how they get to know each other. That area has distinctive scents. Don’t you notice they do that to humans, too?
It is not sexual or wacala. (Wacala is my new favorite word–it means disgusting in spanish)
BoArgMir
Thanks BoArgMir. I’ll have to remember wacala for disgusting.
Nothing so surprising as a dogs nose in your crotch
No problemo, capman. On the word Wacala, the emphasis is on the first syllable. Don’t want you to embarrass yourself or anything around native spanish speakers.
melikadothechacha has gone to thats 3 people in 1 week!
who’s the second person besides RRR.
lostforwords? wy is everyone leaving anyway…? and how did you know melikadothechacha left..?
So far melikadothechacha rrr and lostforwords have left I know chacha has left becuase of you look at the comments on the slang words poll you can see he has said he was leaving, this was on the 9th of july i think
WHAT??
melikadothechacha did not seem to be much of a troublemaker to me!
I hope he did not leave. He has be here a long time and is a very active poster and member of this site.
Marina–was he a troublemaker
BoArgMir
You can always go back to the last lesson and send him a comment from there to see if he replys to you.
melikadothechacha on July 9th, 2008 10:58 am
I have noticed a sad trend at the HotForWords blog.
Commentors are choosing to leave, myself among them.
The site is infested with hateful individuals who are not
sexy or intelligent. I’m bored, I’m leavin’ - sorry baby.
The hate speak coming through the screen from your site,
not you, is what bores me. I could choose not to be bored,
then you end up with “time warp” and other problems you
don’t need. …then I’M not intelligent or sexy, and that is
not good - sorry, I have to take a pass. You are going
to see a lot of fighting without my adding to it, as it is.
There is no cure for that kind of ignorance <- word request
I did have quite a lot of fun these last six monthes, leaving
comments for your interested viewers, and I enjoyed most
of their responses. Yours, to, Marina. Your bluetooth/fat ass
joke was the funniest thing I have read in a LONG time!
Food for thought.
There is no option to selectively omit seeing the comments
based upon entering a screen name, or keyword.
To be clear, here are some examples:
shit, fuck, pussy, cunt, cocksucker, etc are words I ought to be
able to add to a list such that when they are used in comments,
I am not obliged pay any notice, nor respond. Simply block
the comment. Maybe even display a message “comment not shown”
The same goes for individual screen names. I am sure some
folks are cheering this suggestion, with the idea of adding my
name to their exceptions list ( I know, it goes both ways ).
I haven’t cancelled my subscription, nor will I.
I will still watch your lessons and do my
homework - but that’s about it.
I have shed coComments, as I have no real
use for it - especially since Hot For Words
has no interest in giving any lessons, beyond
the sales pitch?! What’s with that?
feel ya later!
He said
I understand his feeling also. I too get bored. I have always said you only get out of this blog what you put into the blog. One must create challenges and goals. We can not expect Marina to do all the work of 500 teachers that is needed to keep things interesting. Have you ever read a major newspaper that was written by only one person?
James, why do you say melikadothechacha is gone? Is he gone?
Just posted his comment above this one
hopefully not. who’s gonna take me on a tour next time I’m in fl?
Thanks for the repost James…I totally missed the original posting from melikadothechacha.
He says he is not gone, only is not going to post comments anymore. Well, if you are reading this mel, don’t let the jerks keep you from participating.
I agree that it gets crude and is annoying to see those vulgar words being used and you have a good suggestion about wishing to be able to choose to censor the posts you read. Websites are unfortunately not that sophisticated yet.
Maybe one day.
I hope you come back to comment.
As for the co comment thing….she is a paid advertiser for them, but it helps her out, too, I’m sure because this way, she can get more traffic to this website and youtube. It is helpful for her plan to get more exposure. I don’t see anything wrong with that. And I’m sure if you asked her for lessons on how to utilize it (if that is what you meant) she would be happy to show you how.
No way! this isn’t happening! I thought I had his email address but I can’t find it. He can’t leave. UUUUgggghhhh!
What do you mean as in “gone”?
I am new to HFW and thus have little standing to comment, however, I do concur with the view expressed my Captain Jack. If we take care to share the fun and interesting aspects of words and their meaning with a little humor and a sense of collegiality then the site will remain a joy. Let’s ignore the vulgar and sometimes incomprehensible postings of the few and celebrate the great contributions of the majority of HFW fans.
I don’t know if James mentioned it but he was on the http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/04/01/slang-words/ page.
Greetings,
I would like to know how the word “Mulligan” has come to have two meanings as in “Mulligan stew” and “Do over” referring to golf…. Care to investigate?
Kind regards,
Sparkz
Yes I use to use Mulligans all the time in golf (back when I REALLY sucked at at) and I don’t even know where it came from. Could be interesting.
Marina, I have found a great word and it would be really funny if you would make a video about its origin, would certainly give some laughs the word is “avocado”.
James
xx
I HAVE FOUND THE ORIGIN OF THE WORD “WORD”!!!
So are you going to tell us or are you going to keep your words a secret?
I could put it in a video or something.. Its hard to explain so to simplify it down would make it shorter. I don’t really want to do this too much because it is marinas job… but word is a word people ask for alot… even I asked for it…… ok decided what I will do here. I will just copy and paste it here.. Anyone asking for the origin of the word word again, should be replied to with this.
SHUT UP!! (no don’t paste that I’m just messing about)
English word is directly from Old English word, and has cognates in all branches of Germanic (Old High German wort, Old Norse orð, Gothic waurd), deriving from Proto-Germanic *wurđa, continuing a virtual PIE *wr̥dhom. Cognates outside Germanic include Baltic (Old Prussian wīrds “word”, and with different ablaut Lithuanian var̃das “name”, Latvian vàrds “word, name”) and Latin verbum. The PIE stem *werdh- is also found in Greek ερθει (φθεγγεται “speaks, utters” Hes. ). The PIE root is *ŭer-, ŭrē- “say, speak” (also found in Greek ειρω, ρητωρ).
The original meaning of word is “utterance, speech, verbal expression”. Until Early Modern English, it could more specifically refer to a name or title.
The technical meaning of “an element of speech” first arises in discussion of grammar (particularly Latin grammar), as in the prologue to Wyclif’s Bible (ca. 1400):
“This word autem, either vero, mai stonde for forsothe, either for but.”
meow
James
Tnks!
I think Marina should do a top “10″ most common word list to make it easier for AJ’s to look up and not to keep requesting.
word to ur mum!…
Dear Marina, I agree that small dogs can be feisty, but large dogs can be very fierce! Dogs can be very gentle, too. In the Army we had a German shepherd that wandered into our camp. She apparently ran away from her owner or from an enemy K-9 handler. She was gentle and I fed her meat from my own rations at first. We named her “Sig” because we were a Signal Corps detachment. I made sure she had fresh water and dog food every day. She liked it when I gave her a bath because I’d do a thorough job. When we took field trips to our remote signal sites, she would come with us, instead of remaining at Camp. At night, she would walk the perimeter with us, and when I slept, she chose to sleep near me. I’d get into my sleeping bag, and she would sleep next to me, pressing against my sleeping bag to keep warm. No, I never let her inside my sleeping bag. She was very protective. If she heard a strange noise at night, she would bark! Nothing can wake me faster than a dog bark from inches away. After I checked things, she would fall asleep again faster than I could. At camp, she would sleep next to my bunk in warm weather, and in cool weather, she would climb on my bunk and sleep over me. No, I never let her get under the sheets. When I was reassigned, I left Sig in care of other soldiers in Camp. She did very well, and I never have owned another dog. Because I’m away at work ten hours a day, it would be too long to leave a dog alone.
At the end of your video you show Kobe pawing at your hair and even taking nips at it. Don’t teach your dog bad behaviors! Your hair always looks so good in your videos, it made me unhappy to see you with messy hair. Also, Kobe could do this to the wrong person. Suppose Kobe took the hairpiece off a big advertiser for your site, or off a big TV interviewer? Worse still, Kobe might take the wig off your wealthy, bald Russian boyfriend! (I’m only making a joke.) Your dear student, seesix CM6
That bit at the end seemed to simply be a bit of fun between the two of them that makes them mutually happy. I’m sure the lil dog wouldn’t do that to anyone else. That was just private time
i already wondered who did your hair.
cute little doggy
i love labradors and retrievers goes there sweet hearted and are very good in keeping burglars away xd
…..found a Pangram containing the word dog…..
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
There’s a word my friend just brought up and I’d love to know the meaning.
DIPSTICK. Seriously, why does that stand for someone who is dumb or absent minded. I’d love to know. Xoxo
AWWWWWW, what a wee lil bundle of fluff Kobie is. I love all types of dogs M. Grew up with Bruno a Labby as a weener. Used to hang underneeth him like a lil monkeyman being carried around everyplace!
kinda Jungle book stylie!
Love dogs that learn tricks and things. Duko (Biggish - Staffy Cross) is a bit smart at times. Has been excellent to train so far. He enjoys new things altough hard at breaking his old habbits. Big softy, now locally known as Soppy Bollocks by the ever ageing community. At first people would cross the street to avoid us as he looks all mean and narly, at first. But now they shout Duko, Soppy Bollocks!! He lathers all will kisses and hugs…..I would like to send you some photos of him, do I just send to HFW.com ??
Regarding the ‘phew, fiesty’ part, well, yep, they do let go some rotters occasionaly. Most unpleasant at times! Just dont feed them Brussle Sprouts, did that once, two day woffters lingering around, could almost chew on them and blow bubbles!!
Do you know how a dog became known as a mans best friend?
Palindromes:-
Go deliver a dare, vile dog!
Dogma: I am God
Anyhoo, much to do………..
P.s.
M, love your dressed down look too with furball biteing your hair. Quite fetching!
Be K9
Sun
The word “Sun” I know there is a Germanic Sun Goddess named Sunna, as well as a Viking Goddess named Sol as in Solar system.. Which came first? Was the Goddess named after the Sun, or the Sun named after the Goddess?
Our ancestors were all animists. So you have the answer !
Hi Marina - Thank you for your great podcasts! I have a word idea…
I was watching CSI on TV last night, and they had to dig up a “Jane Doe”. Which got me to wonder, who picked Jane?, and Doe for that matter! John Doe for guys. Is it the same generic name in other countries?
I love seeing your puppy in the videos as well, and you must have a HUGE closet of cloths!
Thank you so much for making word origins fun.
Oh, and I am more of a big dog type of person.