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单词 fisticuff
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fisticuffn.

/ˈfɪstɪkʌf/
Forms: Also fistycuff.
Etymology: < fist n.1 + cuff n.2; the form may be imitated < handiwork.
1. In plural. Blows or fighting with the fists.
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society > society and the community > dissent > fighting > [noun] > with the fists
fisticuffs1600
buffet1675
fist-work1819
fisticuffery1823
fisticuffing1855
knockabout1903
fist-fighting1950
the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific thing > [noun] > with the hand > with the fist
bobeta1400
bobettingc1440
boba1568
nevel1568
fisticuffs1600
bunch1642
condyle1644
poke1690
punch1766
fist1767
plug1798
chuckera1805
polthogue1808
fistera1834
jab1889
bust1893
1600 R. Armin Foole vpon Foole sig. D1v The foole..falles at fisty cuffes with him.
1625 T. Godwin Romanae Historiae Anthologia (new ed.) ii. iii. vi. 92 In this kinde of fight, succeeded fistie-cuffe.
a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Little French Lawyer iv. iv, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. K2/2 To revenge my wrongs at fisty-cuffes.
1731 J. Swift Corr. (1963) 28 Aug. III. 495 My invention and judgment are perpetually at fisticuffs, till they have quite disabled each other.
1812 Sporting Mag. 39 34 Fighting men and lovers of fisty-cuffs.
1858 R. A. Vaughan Ess. & Remains I. 23 The blows..are not mere fisticuffs.
1877 J. A. Symonds Renaissance in Italy v. 243 It now and then happened that the literary gladiators came to actual fisticuffs.
2. attributive quasi-adj.
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society > society and the community > dissent > fighting > [adjective] > types of fight
fisticuff1749
up and down1840
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones II. iv. viii. 56 It is lucky for the Women, that the Seat of Fistycuff-War is not the same with them as among Men. View more context for this quotation
1810 Naval Chron. 24 369 The fistycuffs art.
1848 J. Grant Adventures Aide-de-camp xxxiii Many a fisticuff battle and bicker.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

fisticuffv.

/ˈfɪstɪkʌf/
Etymology: < fisticuff n.
a. transitive. To strike or cuff with the fists. Also figurative.
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the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific thing > strike with specific thing [verb (transitive)] > with the hand > with the fist
boxc1390
punch1530
nevela1572
fist1600
transfisticate1600
fisticuff1653
nubble1673
befist1718
plug1847
to put a head on (also upon)1866
to stick one on1910
1653 tr. S. Przypkowski Dissertatio de Pace i. 4 This writing will be so fisty-cuffed by many.
1885 M. Pattison Mem. 52 He would..have fisticuffed me round the room for my pains.
b. intransitive. To fight or spar with the fists.
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society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > quarrel [verb (intransitive)]
threapc1175
disputea1225
thretec1400
varyc1450
fray1465
to fall out1470
to set (or fall) at variancec1522
quarrel1530
square1530
to break a straw1542
to be or to fall at (a) square1545
to fall at jar1552
cowl1556
tuilyie1565
jarl1580
snarl1597
to fall foul1600
to cast out1730
fisticuff1833
spat1848
cagmag1882
rag1889
to part brass-rags1898
hassle1949
blue1955
1833 New Monthly Mag. 37 488 A brace of judges fisticuffing on the bench.

Derivatives

ˈfisticuffing n.
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society > society and the community > dissent > fighting > [noun] > with the fists
fisticuffs1600
buffet1675
fist-work1819
fisticuffery1823
fisticuffing1855
knockabout1903
fist-fighting1950
1855 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 16 Nov. in Eng. Notebks. (1997) I. iv. 399 The miscellaneous assaults and batteries, kickings, fisticuffings..which the inferior officers continually perpetrate.
1878 R. Jefferies Gamekeeper at Home 196 The keeper himself is not altogether averse to a little fisticuffing.
ˈfisticuffer n. a pugilist.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > boxing > [noun] > boxer
buffeter1483
pugil1646
cuffer1662
boxer1672
pugilistc1740
setter-to1810
miller1812
sparrer1814
pet1825
pugilistic1827
slogger1829
fist-mate1834
peeler1852
pug1858
scrapper1874
slugger1877
slogster1881
basher1882
fisticuffer1888
ring man1899
ringster1902
pucker1919
1888 Cent. Mag. Feb. 562/1 Every..fisticuffer..had heard of Bob's strength.
ˈfistiˌcuffery n. fighting.
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society > society and the community > dissent > fighting > [noun] > with the fists
fisticuffs1600
buffet1675
fist-work1819
fisticuffery1823
fisticuffing1855
knockabout1903
fist-fighting1950
1823 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 14 527 On the moral propriety of conjugal fistycuffery I had prepared some copious remarks.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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