fist
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[edit] English
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[edit] Etymology
Middle English, from Old English fȳst, from Proto-Germanic *funstiz (compare West Frisian fûst, Dutch vuist, German Faust), from Proto-Indo-European *pn̥kʷ-sti 'fist' (compare Lithuanian kùmstė, Old Church Slavonic pęstĭ), from *pénkʷe 'five'. More at five.
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fist (plural fists)
- hand with the fingers clenched or curled inward
- The boxer's fists rained down on his opponent in the last round.
- (printing) the pointing hand symbol
- (ham radio) the characteristic signaling rhythm of an individual telegraph or CW operator when sending Morse code
[edit] Translations
clenched hand
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- Scottish Gaelic: dòrn m.
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[edit] Verb
fist (third-person singular simple present fists, present participle fisting, simple past and past participle fisted)
- To strike with the fist.
- ...may not score a point with his open hand(s), but may score a point by fisting the ball. Damian Cullen. "Running the rule." The Irish Times 18 Aug 2003, pg. 52.
- To close (the hand) into a fist.
- 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2011, p. 29:
- He noticed Ada's trick of hiding her fingernails by fisting her hand or stretching it with the palm turned upward when helping herself to a biscuit.
- 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2011, p. 29:
- (slang) To fist-fuck.
