fist
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: games
gaming
Etymology: From Middle English fist, from Old English fȳst (“fist”), from Proto-West Germanic *fūsti (“fist”), of uncertain origin, but possibly from Proto-Indo-European *pewǵ- (“to punch; to prick, stab”).
Cognates
Cognate with Yola fest, hist (“fist”), Saterland Frisian Fäste, Fääste (“fist”), West Frisian fûst (“fist”), Central Franconian Fuus (“fist”), Cimbrian bòista, vòista (“fist”), Dutch vuist (“fist”), German Faust (“fist”), Low German Fuust (“fist”), Luxembourgish Fauscht (“fist”), Vilamovian faojst, faust (“fist”), Yiddish פֿויסט (foyst, “fist”); also Irish fuaigh (“sew, stitch”), Latin pugnus (“fist”), Ancient Greek πυγμή (pugmḗ, “fist”), πύκτης (púktēs, “boxer, pugilist”), Lithuanian kumštis (“fist”), Bulgarian пестник (pestnik, “fist; punch”), Czech pěst (“fist”), Polish pięść (“fist”), Russian пясть (pjastʹ, “metacarpus”), Serbo-Croatian пе̏ст, pȅst, пѐсница, pèsnica (“fist”), Slovak päsť (“fist”), Slovene pest (“fist”). More at five.
Inflected forms:
form: fists
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fists
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: fisting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: fisted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: fisted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A hand with the fingers clenched or curled inward.
pos: noun
examples: The boxer's fists rained down on his opponent in the last round.
gloss: Synonym of manicule.
pos: noun
gloss: The characteristic signaling rhythm of an individual telegraph or CW operator when sending Morse code.
pos: noun
gloss: A person's characteristic handwriting.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A group of men.
pos: noun
gloss: The talons of a bird of prey.
pos: noun
examples: More light then Culver in the Faulcons fist.
gloss: An attempt at something.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: City look stronger, fitter and more motivated than last season and even at this early stage the gap feels like a sizeable advantage. Yes, it is way too early to make snap judgments about the impact on the title race. It has, however, been long enough to ascertain that Manuel Pellegrini’s team are going to make a much better fist of it this time.
With the rise of cognitive neuroscience, the time may be coming when we can make a reasonable fist of mapping down from an understanding of the functional architecture of the mind to the structural architecture of the brain.
gloss: To strike with the fist.
pos: verb
examples: ...may not score a point with his open hand(s), but may score a point by fisting the ball.
gloss: To close (the hand) into a fist.
pos: verb
examples: 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.
gloss: To grip with a fist.
pos: verb
examples: I am an officer; but, how I wish I could fist a bit of old-fashioned beef in the fore-castle, as I used to when I was before the mast.
gloss: To fist-fuck.
pos: verb
tags: slang
gloss: To stomp, to utterly defeat
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Synonyms: nief
bunch of fives
fist-size
ductus
Related words: knuckle
punch
Derived words: armored fist
armoured fist
backfist
brofist
clenched fist
clubfist
clutchfist
fistball
fistbump
fist bump
fist-bump
fistee
fist-fight
fistfighter
fist fight
fistfight
fist-fuck
fistfuck
fist-fucking
fistfucking
fistful
fistiana
fistic
fistical
fisticuff
fist jam
fistlike
fist magnet
fistnote
fist-pump
fist pump
fist-pumper
fistwise
fisty
French fist
hammer fist
hand over fist
iron fist
leg-of-mutton fist
mailed fist
make a fist of
make a good fist of
monkey's fist
mutton fist
pinchfist
pump one's fist
pump someone's fist
punch fist
put one's fist to
raised fist
talk to the fist
terrorist fist jab
tight-fisted
unfist
wolf's-fist
double-fist
fister
fisting
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