Contextualizebeta

fist

noun
/fɪst/

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.

  1. derived from *(s)peys-✻
  2. derived from *fīsaną✻
  3. derived from *fistaz✻
  4. derived from *fistan✻
  5. derived from fisten

Definitions

  1. A hand with the fingers clenched or curled inward.

    • The boxer's fists rained down on his opponent in the last round.

  2. Synonym of manicule.

  3. The characteristic signaling rhythm of an individual telegraph or CW operator when…

    The characteristic signaling rhythm of an individual telegraph or CW operator when sending Morse code.

  4. ›+ 13 more definitions

    1. A person's characteristic handwriting.

    2. A group of men.

    3. The talons of a bird of prey.

      • More light then Culver in the Faulcons fist.

    4. An attempt at something.

      • 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.

    5. To strike with the fist.

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

    6. To close (the hand) into a fist.

      • 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.

    7. To grip with a fist.

      • 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.

    8. To fist-fuck.

    9. To stomp, to utterly defeat

    10. To break wind.

    11. The act of breaking wind

      The act of breaking wind; fise.

    12. A puffball.

    13. Acronym of Future Infantry Soldier Technology.

The neighborhood

Derived

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 · +18 more

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for fist. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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