fistwise

English

Etymology

fist +‎ -wise

Adverb

fistwise (not comparable)

1. In the manner of a fist.
   • 2003, Trenton Merricks, Objects and Persons, page 153:

     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 fighting with the fists.
   • 1990, Darrell Schweitzer, Weird Tales 296 (Spring 1990), page 57:

     Sometimes the heroes were foolhardy enough to try taking on the Mummy fistwise.

   • 2013, Bill James, In Good Hands:

     Fistwise, Erog was going to beat me.