fyce

[skinem]

Saw this word in a book I recently read (Year of Jubilo) referring to a adolescent dog. Hadn't heard it before.
The dictionary says it is a varient of the word "feist" which means a "fisting hound", from obsolete "fist" meaning to break wind.


Used chiefly to mean a small dog.

I don't want a fisting hound. My dog smells bad enough on his own...

[Stargzer]

The only mention of fyce on Wikipedia in the article about Faulkner's novel Go Down Moses, in which fyce-dog appears in the story "The Bear."

There is also an article about feist dogs, which appear to have been developed in the rural American South, originally in the southern Appalachian and Ozark mountains.

[Grogie]

Nice word Skinem. Thanks.

[skinem]

Thanks, Grogie!

Stargzer, thanks for the link. As I like dogs I found it interesting and the picture helped me picture the dog that I'd been picturing in my imagination in the book.
The author must have known what he was writing about as The Year of Jubilo takes place in northern Mississippi immediately following the War for Southern Independence.

[sluggo]

Skinem returneth!

-and he's all fyce-ty.

... a "fisting hound", from obsolete "fist" meaning to break wind.
...

Let's fyce it: Give a man a fyce and you entertain him for a day;
Teach a dog to fyce, and you can entertain dozens on YouTube...

Rimshot section (the fyce man cometh):
If you had a pair of such hounds, would you be two-fyced?
- or if one was a big dog, would you be considered half-fyced?
If such pooch had perfect pitch could it fyce the music?
If it were a dachshund would you be asked "why the long fyce?"

-sorry, it's what happens when Sluggo is left to his own defyces

[skinem]

If he were a hounddog, would you ask "Why the sad fyce?"
If he were a guard dog, would he be grim fyced?
Would you call a soldier a dog fyce?
(Sorry, "Super Tuesday" is making me fysty...)