Associations to the word «Jauntily»
Noun
Adjective
Wiktionary
JAUNTILY, adverb. In an airy, showy, or affected manner.
JAUNTILY, adverb. In a dapper or stylish manner.
JAUNTILY, adverb. In an ostentatiously self-confident manner.
Dictionary definition
JAUNTILY, adverb. In a jaunty fashionable manner; "his hat sat jauntily on his full brown hair".
Wise words
Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary
meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the
truants in custody and bring them back to their right
senses.