jaunty的意思|jaunty的解释-里氏词典

jaunty ['dʒɒ:nti]

a. 快活的, 活泼的, 轻快的

jaunty
jauntier, jauntiest

[ adj ]

marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners

<adj.all>

a dapper young man

a jaunty red hat

having a cheerful, lively, and self-confident air

<adj.all>

looking chipper, like a man...diverted by his own wit

life that is gay, brisk, and debonair

walked with a jaunty step

a jaunty optimist

Jaunty \Jaun"ty\, a. [Compar. {Jauntier}; superl. {Jauntiest}.]
[Formerly spelt janty, fr. F. gentil. See {Gentle}, and cf.
{Genty}.]
Airy; showy; finical; hence, characterized by an affected or
fantastical manner.

Radio Times is primarily an excuse to revive some of that Light Programme music, with biggish bands, jaunty and sentimental songs, corny and sometimes risque jokes.
An egg is broken into a frying pan as the credits roll to jaunty music.
The notorious near-nudes scamper and scurry and squeal here and there in Titania's thrall. Their faces and bodies are powdered white, and they brandish lasso-like ribbons, which they spin round themselves when they perform their jaunty little jigs.
Reagan, 79, accompanied by his wife Nancy, arrived in West Berlin at 12:20 a.m. Tuesday aboard the late publisher Malcolm Forbes' private Boeing 727 with the jaunty slogan "Capitalist Tool" painted on its tail.
Not for nothing does everything in this film seem elegiac, including the jaunty music of the very British Hong Kong marching band.
McGough, most companionable of the Mersey Poets, raced through a dozen jaunty family favourites in London last week.
The orchestra performed a memorable "Count Basie Remembrance Suite" in honor of its jaunty founder.
Speaking high British, his jaw tightens and his face takes on a distinct reserve; doing a French accent, his chin slackens, his lips purse and he looks a bit jaunty.

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