clubfisted

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

club +‎ fisted

Adjective[edit]

clubfisted (comparative more clubfisted, superlative most clubfisted)

  1. 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.
  2. 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.