Fist

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English

Noun

Fist (plural Fists)
  1. hand with the fingers clenched or curled inward
    The boxer's fists rained down on his opponent in the last round.
  2. (printing) the pointing hand symbol
  3. (ham radio) the characteristic signaling rhythm of an individual telegraph or CW operator when sending Morse code

Verb

Fist (third-person singular simple present Fists, present participle Fisting, simple past and past participle Fisted)

  1. To strike with the fist.
    ...may not score a point with his open hand(s), but may score a point by fisting the ball. Damian Cullen. "Running the rule." The Irish Times 18 Aug 2003, pg. 52.
  2. To close (the hand) into a fist.
    • 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2011, p. 29:
      He noticed Ada's trick of hiding her fingernails by fisting her hand or stretching it with the palm turned upward when helping herself to a biscuit.
  3. (slang) To fist-fuck.

Adjectives for Fist

clenched; rocklike; parental; fat; helping husky; tense; skillful; clumsy; practised dimpled; huge; solid; hamlike; giant heavy; ample; pudgy; iron; hard-knuckled useful-looking; great; raw; calloused knotted; gnarled; vengeful; angry; furious shaking; defiant; rage-driven; smashing whirling; swinging; pounding; thudding closed; hairy; doubled; impotent; knuckle-torn; rock-laden; mailed; choking; eager oxiike.

Verbs for Fist

bandage—; box with—; clasp in—; clench —; close into—; conceal in—; dodge—; double into—; drive with—; feint with—; fight with—; flourish—; fold into—; grasp with—; injure—; lay on with—; shake—; strike with—; swing—; wield—; —clutches; —crushes; —descends; —grips; —shoots out; —staggers.

Thesaurus

arrow, autography, blaze, calligraphy, chirography, compass needle, direction, direction post, finger post, graphanalysis, graphology, graphometry, guide, guideboard, guidepost, hand, handwriting, hour hand, index, index finger, lead, lubber line, manuscript, milepost, minute hand, needle, paleography, pencraft, penmanship, penscript, pointer, script, scription, scrive, signboard, signpost, stylography

Etymology

Middle English, from Old English fȳst, from Proto-Germanic *funstiz (compare West Frisian fûst, Dutch vuist, German Faust), from Proto-Indo-European *pn̥kʷ-sti 'fist' (compare Lithuanian kùmstė, Old Church Slavonic pęstĭ), from *pénkʷe 'five'. More at five.

Pronunciation

Translations

Noun

clenched hand
(printing) the pointing hand symbol
(ham radio) the characteristic signaling rhythm
The translations below need to be checked.
  • Scottish Gaelic: dòrn m.

See also

Verb

to strike with the fist

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