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# The BFD Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-bfd-word-of-the-day-1007/
- Published: 2022-11-01T17:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-08-29T18:39:59.000Z
- Author: David Theobald
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-16 22:48

The word for today is…

jaunty (adjective):

1 : sprightly in manner or appearance  
2 *archaic*  : stylish or genteel

Source : [Merriam -Webster](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/jaunty?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology :Does throwing on a jaunty hat make someone appear more genteel? Maybe, but something more definitive links the words: both jaunty and genteel come from the French word gentil, meaning “of aristocratic birth.” Genteel was borrowed first to describe things associated with aristocratic people. Jaunty joined the language just a few years later in the mid-17th century as a synonym of stylish and also as a synonym for genteel. While genteel has maintained its associations of propriety and high social class, jaunty has traipsed into less stuffy territory as a descriptor of tunes and hats and other things that suggest lively confidence.

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