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in high feather en · ADP
Meanings
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In high spirits; cheerful.
He was in very high feather.
1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:Next Saturday that come, I pitched the cart on the same pitch, and I was in very high feather indeed, keeping ’em laughing the whole of the time, and getting off the goods briskly.
1865, Charles Dickens, Doctor Marigold:I ascended to the pilot-house in high feather, and very proud to be semi-officially a member of the executive family of so fast and famous a boat.
1883, Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi, ch. 18: