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fistiana

noun
/fɪstɪˈɑːnə/

Etymology

From fist + -iana.

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

Definitions

  1. Things related to the sport of boxing.

    • Then came the necessary preliminaries — the finding of a place in which to train; the securing of an expert boxer to instruct me in the art of fistiana...
    • ...Heenan's friends urged him to issue a challenge to Tom Sayers, British title holder, for the highest honors in fistiana.

The neighborhood

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