† mutton-fistn.
Obsolete.
1. slang. A large coarse red hand; a person having such hands.
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1664 C. Cotton Scarronides 18 Lifting his Mutton-fists to'th skies.
1693 J. Dryden tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires xvi. 45 Will he who saw the soldier's mutton-fist, And saw thee maul'd, appear within the list To witness truth?
1707 E. Ward London Terræ-filius No. 3. 8 Mutton fists.
1826 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae xxix, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 782 With wide-open mutton fists on each heap of hips.
1864 J. C. Hotten Slang Dict. (new ed.) Mutton-fist, an uncomplimentary title for any one having a large coarse red hand.
2. A printer's index-hand. rare.
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1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 85 Mutton-fist, an index hand,..sometimes shortly called a ‘fist’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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