"jaunty" is an acceptable word in English.
It is an adjective that means briskly or confidently cheerful. For example, "She was wearing a bright yellow dress and a jaunty hat as she danced around the room."
The actor himself appears relaxed, leaning on Patrick, his hat at a jaunty angle.
Jonathan Kent's production this evocation of the rackety world of American vaudeville – with music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Arthur Laurents – boasted a breathtaking performance from Imelda Staunton, who played Mama Rose not as some implacable monster but as a jaunty, defiant woman seeking surrogate stardom through the showbiz success of her two daughters.
There are marital jokes, impish rhymes and wilful metaphors that strain, in their jaunty inventiveness, against the harrowing subject matter.
A jaunty tune, a meaningless title, loads of weird sound effects – Tom Tom was everything that Eurovision stood for, compressed into three minutes.
He entered No 10 wearing the straw boater of jaunty comical arrogance; he recently tried the itchy woollen hat of humble public servitude; and now he wanders between micro-managed photo-opportunities – a milk-guzzling lamb, a paint-smeared child – without any hat at all, bareheaded in the storms.
Ezrafact: this jaunty number is the only song in this week's top 40 to include the word "artefact" in its lyrics.
She's got a heart of gold, no God complex, a jaunty range of animal pattern scrubs, and a bedside manner to die for.
Mario and Sonic made sense to western players, but lurking just beyond these palatable mascots was a world of entertainment too strange to ever secure an official European release: fascinating, crazy games full of talking octopuses and jaunty tunes.
Unless they're cheering the intruder, who did cut quite the dash with his jaunty orange tie.
On a larger scale, they have a 20-foot (six-metre) gilded section of a Pennsylvania movie theatre façade, period rooms with their chandeliers, wall panelling and rugs intact and a 1920s artist-designed children's bedroom with inventive furniture (such as the jaunty chair pictured).Quality matters, rarity is appreciated but beauty gives way to documentary value and particular era.
The tracks include two stand-out performances from Quarteto Em Cy, a girl group branded in the Brill Building mode, including the jaunty "Amaralina .The collection runs hot to cold, ardent red to lonesome blue it soothes and abrades.
