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fistwise

adv

Etymology

From fist + -wise.

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

Definitions

  1. In the manner of a fist.

    • Suppose that while you are comatose, I use your fist, as if it were a hammer, to shatter the window. It seems quite plausible that, although your atoms arranged fistwise cause the window to shatter, you do not.

  2. By means of the fists

    By means of the fists; by fighting with the fists.

    • Sometimes the heroes were foolhardy enough to try taking on the Mummy fistwise.
    • Fistwise, Erog was going to beat me.

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