JAUNTY


Meaning of JAUNTY in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

angle

His grey hat, which he swept off with a flourish as the ladies approached, was set at a jaunty angle .

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a jaunty pink shirt

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

By the time our bowls were scraped clean, our anxieties would be stilled, our spirits jaunty .

Characters sing jaunty ragtime and barbershop melodies.

He tried to be jaunty about it and almost succeeded.

His grey hat, which he swept off with a flourish as the ladies approached, was set at a jaunty angle.

She had a startlingly dashing necklace and wore some sort of a uniform cap in a jaunty way.

The 1960s were the years of jaunty self-confidence among economists, and the reasons for this were not difficult to fathom.

They love him ... all that golden hair and the jaunty moustache.

Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary.      Дополнительный английский словарь Longman DOCE5.