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Princeton's WordNet

  1. fist, clenched fistnoun

    a hand with the fingers clenched in the palm (as for hitting)

Wiktionary

  1. fistnoun

    hand with the fingers clenched or curled inward

    The boxer's fists rained down on his opponent in the last round.

  2. fistnoun

    the pointing hand symbol

  3. fistnoun

    the characteristic signaling rhythm of an individual telegraph or CW operator when sending Morse code

  4. fistnoun

    a person's characteristic handwriting

  5. fistnoun

    fisting

  6. fistverb

    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.

  7. fistverb

    To close (the hand) into a fist.

  8. fistverb

    To fist-fuck.

  9. Etymology: from fyst, from funstiz (compare West Frisian fûst, Dutch vuist, German Faust), from pn̥kʷ-sti 'fist' (compare Lithuanian kumste, Old Church Slavonic pęstĭ), from *pénkʷe 'five'. More at five.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. FISTnoun

    The hand clenched with the fingers doubled down, in order to give a blow, or keep hold.

    Etymology: fist, Saxon.

    She quick and proud, and who did Pas despise,
    Up with her fist, and took him on the face;
    Another time, quoth she, become more wise;
    Thus Pas did kiss her hand with little grace. Philip Sidney.

    And being down, the villain sore did beat
    And bruise with clownish fists his manly face. Fairy Queen.

    Anger causeth paleness in some; in others trembling, swelling, foaming at the mouth, stamping, and bending the fist. Francis Bacon, Natural History, №. 716.

    And the same hand into a fist may close,
    Which instantly a palm expanded shows. John Denham.

    Tyrrheus, the foster-father of the beast,
    Then clench’d a hatchet in his horny fist. John Dryden, Æn.

  2. To Fistverb

    I saw him spurning and fisting her most unmercifully. Dryd.

    We have been down together in my sleep,
    Unbuckling helms, fisting each other’s throat,
    And wak’d half dead with nothing. William Shakespeare, Coriolanus.

Wikipedia

  1. Fist

    A fist is the shape of a hand when the fingers are bent inward against the palm and held there tightly. To make or clench a fist is to fold the fingers tightly into the center of the palm and then to clamp the thumb over the middle phalanges; in contrast to this "closed" fist, one keeps the fist "open" by holding the thumb against the side of the index finger. One uses the closed fist to punch the lower phalanges against a surface, or to pound with the little-finger side of the hand's heel; one uses the open fist to knock with the middle knuckle of the middle finger.

ChatGPT

  1. fist

    A fist is a human's hand when the fingers are bent in towards the palm and held there tightly, typically as a gesture of physical aggression or to hold or manipulate an object.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Fistnoun

    the hand with the fingers doubled into the palm; the closed hand, especially as clinched tightly for the purpose of striking a blow

  2. Fistnoun

    the talons of a bird of prey

  3. Fistnoun

    the index mark [/], used to direct special attention to the passage which follows

  4. Fistverb

    to strike with the fist

  5. Fistverb

    to gripe with the fist

  6. Etymology: [OE. fist, fust, AS. fst; akin to D. vuist, OHG. fst, G. faust, and prob. to L. pugnus, Gr. pygmh` fist, py`x with the fist. Cf. Pugnacious, Pigmy.]

Wikidata

  1. Fist

    Traditional Heavy Metal/Hard Rock band, founded in Ontario, Canada in 1977.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Fist

    fist, n. the closed or clenched hand.—v.t. to strike or grip with the fist.—n. Fistiā′na, anecdotes about boxing and boxers.—adj. Fist′ic (Dickens), pugilistic.—ns. Fist′icuff, a blow with the fist: (pl.) boxing, blows; Fist′-law, the law of brute force.—adj. Fist′y. [A.S. fýst; Ger. faust.]

Editors Contribution

  1. Fist

    A treasure map

    In Treasure Island Flint's "Fist" refers to the map of Flint's treasure. The blind man cursed the money. "Flint's fist, I mean," he cried. "We don't see it here nohow,"

    Etymology: Modern English Treasure Island [Stevenson, Robert Louis] 1882


    Submitted by anonymous on September 16, 2020  

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  1. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'FIST' in Nouns Frequency: #2198

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of FIST in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of FIST in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of FIST in a Sentence

  1. Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962:

    My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.

  2. Benjamin Petrini:

    The Taliban are going to have to establish themselves as legitimate, so they can't necessarily rule with an iron fist.

  3. Paramedic Kenneth Phillips:

    We received a report from the first responder that officer Kerrick had been assaulted, i didn't ask him if he was assaulted with a fist or with a weapon or anything like that. I think that our attention was drawn to him just to make sure that he did not have a life-threatening emergency at the time.

  4. Franz Kafka:

    If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skulls, then why do we read it Good God, we also would be happy if we had no books and such books that make us happy we could, if need be, write ourselves. What we must have are those books that come on us like ill fortune, like the death of one we love better than ourselves, like suicide. A book must be an ice axe to break the sea frozen inside us.

  5. Wu Qiang:

    The targets of Fu Zhenghua's crackdown are people at the core of China's civil society. Therefore, the country's whole intellectual sector and the wider public are all thrilled by( Fu Zhenghua fall from grace), fu Zhenghua rise to power represented the aggressive iron-fist approach that has shaped China's governance over the past decade.

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