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English

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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FromMiddle Englishfist, fromOld Englishfȳst(“fist”), fromProto-West Germanic*fūsti, of uncertain origin. Cognate withSaterland FrisianFääste(“fist”),West Frisianfûst(“fist”),Dutchvuist(“fist”),German Low GermanFuust(“fist”),GermanFaust(“fist”). More atfive.

Noun

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fist (pluralfists)

  1. Ahand with thefingersclenched orcurled inward.
    The boxer'sfists rained down on his opponent in the last round.
  2. (printing) The pointinghand symbol☞.
  3. (amateur radio) The characteristic signaling rhythm of an individualtelegraph orCW operator when sendingMorse code.
  4. (slang) A person's characteristichandwriting.
  5. A group of men.(Can we add anexample for this sense?)
  6. Thetalons of abird of prey.
  7. (informal) Anattempt at something.
    • 2015 August 16, Daniel Taylor,The Guardian‎[1]:
      City look stronger, fitter and more motivated than last season and even at this early stage the gap feels like a sizeable advantage. Yes, it is way too early to make snap judgments about the impact on the title race. It has, however, been long enough to ascertain thatManuel Pellegrini’s team are going to make a much betterfist of it this time.
    • 2005, Darryl N. Davis,Visions of Mind: Architectures for Cognition and Affect, page144:
      With the rise of cognitive neuroscience, the time may be coming when we can make a reasonablefist of mapping down from an understanding of the functional architecture of the mind to the structural architecture of the brain.
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Translations
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clenched hand
(printing) the pointing hand symbol
(ham radio) the characteristic signaling rhythm

Verb

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fist (third-person singular simple presentfists,present participlefisting,simple past and past participlefisted)

  1. Tostrike with thefist.
    • 18 Aug 2003, Damian Cullen. "Running the rule"The Irish Times page 52
      ...may not score a point with his open hand(s), but may score a point byfisting the ball.
  2. Toclose (thehand) into afist.
    • 1969, Vladimir Nabokov,Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published2011, page29:
      He noticed Ada's trick of hiding her fingernails byfisting her hand or stretching it with the palm turned upward when helping herself to a biscuit.
  3. Togrip with afist.
  4. (slang) Tofist-fuck.
Derived terms
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Translations
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to strike with the fist

See also

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Etymology 2

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FromMiddle Englishfisten,fiesten, fromOld English*fistan("to break wind gently"; supported byOld Englishfisting(“breaking wind”)), fromProto-Germanic*fistaz(“breaking wind, fart”), fromProto-Germanic*fīsaną(“to break or discharge wind, fart”), fromProto-Indo-European*(s)peys-(“to blow, breathe”). Cognate withDutchveest(“a fart”),Low Germanfīsten(“to break wind”),GermanFist(“a quiet wind”),Fisten(“breaking wind”),Swedishfisa(“to fart”),Latinspīrō(“breathe, blow”).

Verb

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fist (third-person singular simple presentfists,present participlefisting,simple past and past participlefisted)

  2. (intransitive) Tobreak wind.

Noun

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fist (pluralfists)

  1. The act ofbreaking wind;fise.
  2. Apuffball.

Anagrams

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Middle English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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FromOld Englishfȳst, fromProto-West Germanic*fūsti.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /fiːst/,/fist/,/fɛːst/,/fɛst/

Noun

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fist (pluralfistes)

  1. fist

Descendants

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References

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Middle French

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Verb

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fist

  1. third-personsingular past historic offaire

Norwegian Bokmål

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Verb

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fist

  1. pastparticiple offise

Old High German

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Etymology

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(Thisetymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at theEtymology scriptorium.)

Noun

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fist m

  1. fart

Declension

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Declension offist (masculine a-stem)
casesingularplural
nominativefistfista
accusativefistfista
genitivefistesfisto
dativefistefistum
instrumentalfistu—

References

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  1. Köbler, Gerhard, Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch, (6. Auflage) 2014
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