clubfisted
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Adjective[edit]
clubfisted (comparative more clubfisted, superlative most clubfisted)
- Having a large fist.
- 2014, Edward W. Robertson, Titans:
- Baxter gripped the handle with his free hand and straightened his ball-hand in front of him, resembling a club-fisted Superman.
- 2009, Deborah MacGillivray, One Snowy Knight:
- As Skena, once again, started to go by the stout woman, Ella met her, the club-fisted hands shoving at her so hard, it knocked her back several steps.
- Crude and blunt, lacking finesse.
- 1592, Thomas Nashe, Piers Penniless his Supplication to the Devil:
- I will defend it against any Collian, or clubfisted Usurer of them all, there is no immortalitie can be given a man on earth like unto Playes.
- 1655, James Howell, “To my cousin, Mr. St. Geon […] ”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume (please specify the page), London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], →OCLC:
- As Logic is clubfisted and crabbed, so she is terrible at first sight
- 2012, Marilee Brothers, Midnight Moon:
- Tomorrow night was graduation, and guess who was chairman of the decoration committee? None other than clubfisted, not a single artistic bone in her body, Allie Emerson.
References[edit]
“clubfisted”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.