It means to show that you are happy and confident...
means to do a thing that is bad or insulting
Sense 1:dapper, dashing, jaunty, natty, raffish, rakish, spiffy, snappy, sprucefashionable (vs. unfashionable), stylishSense 2:chipper, debonair, debonaire, jauntycheerful (vs. depressing)
Main Entry: jaunty Part of Speech:adjective Definition: lively Synonyms: airy, animated, bold, brash, breezy, buoyant, carefree, careless, cocky, dapper, dashing, debonair, devilish, devil-may-care*, easy, exhilarated, flip*, flippant, forward, free, fresh, frisky, frolicsome, gamesome, gay, high-spirited, hilarious, impetuous, impish, impudent, jocose, joking, jolly, jovial, light, natty, nervy, perky, playful, prankish, provocative, reckless, rollicking, self-confident, showy, smart, sportive, sporty, sprightly, spruce, swaggering, trim, venturesome, vivacious Antonyms:depressed, lethargic, lifeless
A stylish cap or hat worn with panache, usually at a cheeky angle... a beret is one example.
Journalism is a school subject. It begins with the letter J.
The English word jaunty means sprightly or easy in manner. It comes from the French word gentil which meant well-bred and genteel.
It means in a self-confident way, looking good - After his promotion Diego walked with a jaunty step. or it can be used to describe.. meaning that you like it - That is a jaunty outfit. ( skillfully trim)
That jaunty jackalope 'jacked my jalopy, Jenny! His jaunty necktie went unnoticed.
She wore her hat at a jaunty angle.
The word jaunty is accented on the first syllable. Jaun-ty.
All the jaunty streams joined together to make a river.
Jaunty; showy., A small, mean dwelling; a rough, slight building for temporary use; a hut., To inhabit a shanty.
"Jaunty" comes from the Old French word "gentil."
About the beginning of the 1660's from French 'gentil' meaning nice or pleasing. Absorbed into English meaning 'easy and sprightly in manner' and passing into English common usage by 1672
How swift and graceful he was in his long trousers with bicycle clips around them and his scarlet cap at a jaunty angle on his head!
2 syllables:auntie, monty4 syllables:biamonte
swagger iz supposed to mean like yo style nd yo way