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fisty

adj

Etymology

From fist + -y. Piecewise doublet of fistic.

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

Definitions

  1. Involving the fists

    Involving the fists; pugilistic.

    • As when, at some low Bacchanalian feast, His drunken votaries, for a trifling jest Or ancient grudge, two staggering clowns begin A fisty fight, fools from all sides rush in: They pull, they rend, they shout […]

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