1 showing that you are feeling confident and pleased with yourself:
a jaunty smile * a hat set at a jaunty angle
2 lively:
a jaunty tune
jauntily adverb:
He set off jauntily, whistling to himself.
jauntiness noun [U]
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for jaunty is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is jaunty a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, jaunty is tagged as adjective.
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