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clubfist

noun

Etymology

From club + fist.

  1. derived from *(s)peys-✻
  2. derived from *fīsaną✻
  3. derived from *fistaz✻
  4. derived from *fistan✻
  5. derived from fisten
  6. compounded as clubfist — “club + fist”

Definitions

  1. A large, heavy fist.

  2. A coarse, brutal fellow.

    • The rascall rude, the roag, the clubfist griepte / My sclender arme, and pluckt mee on in hast: / And with my robes the bloudy ground hee sweepte: / As I drue backe hee hal'd mee on full fast.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA