Tiggerish

//ˈtɪɡəɹɪʃ// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    (Excessively) cheerful and exuberant; bouncy. British

    "In the crucial scene of third-degree examination the wife of the accused turns on the magistrate and berates him with tiggerish ferocity and later stabs him to his death by way of reprisal."

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"In the crucial scene of third-degree examination the wife of the accused turns on the magistrate and berates him with tiggerish ferocity and later stabs him to his death by way of reprisal."

Etymology

From Tigger + -ish, from the nature of the fictional character Tigger in works about Winnie-the-Pooh by the English author A. A. Milne (1882–1956).

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