facety

adjective

1. Playfully rude; feisty.

   My teachers, in the main, thought this was good, but in my parents' opinion I was just simply “facety,” or in plain English, rude or impertinent. Well, the discovery came about as a result of my being “facety” to Mavis.

Where it comes from

Apparently an alteration of facey (although it is attested slightly later) with epenthetic t; perhaps compare -ety, feisty, or Sranan Tongo fiésti (“dirty, nasty”) (19th century).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry facety (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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