fisticuff

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Definition of fisticuff

4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

(rare)A fistfight.

“Every fifteen or twenty minutes there was a rush to some part, to witness a fisticuff.”
“This clearly was not a case for fisticuffs, even apart from the very natural aversion I had to beat that Shadow—this wandering and tormented thing.”

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noun

(rare)A fistfight.

“Every fifteen or twenty minutes there was a rush to some part, to witness a fisticuff.”
“This clearly was not a case for fisticuffs, even apart from the very natural aversion I had to beat that Shadow—this wandering and tormented thing.”
(obsolete)A cuff or blow administered with the fist.

“The apprenticeship of the Prussian Crown Princes has always consisted in receiving fisticuffs and cowhidings from their progenitor, the king.”

verb

(humorous)To engage in a physical fight.

“Generously scattering a drop of my fortune on an early morning sea breeze. Should have jumped after it. Grabber at life's banquet follows a fortune to doom. As folk fleece and fisticuff in street.”
(obsolete)To strike, fight or spar with the fists.

“Do they fisticuff with thunder-snaggs […]”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

From fist + cuff (“blow with the hand”). Modern uses as a verb are a back-formation on the plural uses of the noun.

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