fist
see also: FIST
Pronunciation Etymology 1
FIST
Proper noun
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see also: FIST
Pronunciation Etymology 1
From Middle English fist, from Old English fȳst, from Proto-West Germanic *fūsti, of uncertain origin.
Nounfist (plural fists)
- A hand with the fingers clenched or curled inward.
- The boxer's fists rained down on his opponent in the last round.
- (printing) The pointing hand symbol ☞.
- (ham radio) The characteristic signaling rhythm of an individual telegraph or CW operator when sending Morse code.
- (slang) A person's characteristic handwriting.
- A group of men.
- 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.
- (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.
- Portuguese: pulso
fist (fists, present participle fisting; simple past and past participle fisted)
- 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.
- 18 Aug 2003, Damian Cullen. "Running the rule" The Irish Times page 52
- 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.
- 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.
- (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-.
Verbfist (fists, present participle fisting; simple past and past participle fisted)
- (intransitive) To break wind.
fist (plural fists)
FIST
Proper noun
- Acronym of Future Infantry Soldier Technology
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