• enPR: fĭst, IPA: /fɪst/

From Middle English fist, from Old English fȳst, from Proto-West Germanic *fūsti, of uncertain origin.

fist (plural fists)

1. A 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.
4. (slang) A person's characteristic handwriting.
5. A group of men.
6. The talons of a bird of prey.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC ↗, stanza 34:

     More light then Culver in the Faulcons fist.

7. (informal) An attempt at something.
   • 2005, Darryl N. Davis, Visions of Mind: Architectures for Cognition and Affect, page 144:

     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.

• nief
• bunch of fives
• fist-size
• ductus

• French: poing
• German: Faust
• Italian: pugno
• Portuguese: punho
• Russian: кула́к
• Spanish: puño

• French: manicule
• Italian: manina
• Spanish: manecilla, manícula

• Portuguese: pulso

fist (fists, present participle fisting; simple past and past participle fisted)

1. To strike with the fist.
   • 18 Aug 2003, Damian Cullen. "Running the rule" The Irish Times page 52

     ...may not score a point with his open hand(s), but may score a point by fisting the ball.

2. To close (the hand) into a fist.
   • 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 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. To grip with a fist.
   • 1851 November 13, Herman Melville, “chapter 34”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC ↗:

     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.

4. (slang) To fist-fuck.

• Spanish: apuñalar

From Middle English fisten, fiesten, from Old English *fistan "to break wind gently"; supported by Old English fisting, from Proto-Germanic *fistaz, from Proto-Germanic *fīsaną, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peys-.

fist (fists, present participle fisting; simple past and past participle fisted)

1. (intransitive) To break wind.

fist (plural fists)

1. The act of breaking wind; fise.
2. A puffball.

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