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▪ I. fisticuff, n.|ˈfɪstɪkʌf|
Also fisty-.
[f. fist n.1 + cuff n.2; the form may be imitated from handiwork.]
1. In pl. Blows or fighting with the fists.
1605R. Armin Foole upon F. (1880) 23 The foole..falls at fisty cuffes with him. 1613T. Godwin Rom. Antiq. (1658) 92 In this kinde of fight succeeded fisticuffes. a1625Beaum. & Fl. Little French Lawyer iv. iv, To revenge my wrongs at fisty-cuffs. a1745Swift (J.), My invention and judgment are perpetually at fisticuffs, till they have quite disabled each other. 1812Sporting Mag. XXXIX. 34 Fighting men and lovers of fisty-cuffs. 1858R. A. Vaughan Ess. & Rev. I. 23 The blows..are not mere fisticuffs. 1877Symonds Renaiss. Italy v. 243 It now and then happened that the literary gladiators came to actual fisticuffs.
2. attrib. (quasi-adj.)
1749Fielding Tom Jones iv. viii, It is lucky for the women, that the seat of fistycuff war is not the same with them as among men. 1810Naval Chron. XXIV. 369 The fistycuffs art. 1848J. Grant Adv. Aide-de-C. xxxiii, Many a fisticuff battle and bicker.
▪ II. fisticuff, v.|ˈfɪstɪkʌf|
[f. prec. n.]
a. trans. To strike or cuff with the fists. Also fig.
b. intr. To fight or spar with the fists.
1650–3Hales Dissert. de Pace in Phenix (1708) II. 351 This Writing will be so fisty-cuff'd by many. 1833New Monthly Mag. XXXVII. 488 A brace of judges fisticuffing on the bench. 1885M. Pattison Mem. 52 He would..have fisticuffed me round the room for my pains.
Hence ˈfisticuffing vbl. n. Also ˈfisticuffer, a pugilist; ˈfistiˌcuffery, fighting.
1823Blackw. Mag. XIV. 527 On the moral propriety of conjugal fistycuffery I had prepared some copious remarks. 1854Hawthorne Eng. Note-bks. (1883) II. 173 The miscellaneous assaults and batteries, kickings, fisticuffings..which the inferior officers continually perpetrate. 1878Jefferies Gamekeeper at H. 196 The keeper himself is not altogether averse to a little fisticuffing. 1888Century Mag. Feb. 562/1 Every..fisticuffer..had heard of Bob's strength. |