Definition/Meaning of fist

• English - Noun: fist (plural fists) A hand with the finger s clench ed or curl ed inward. The boxer's fists rained down on his opponent in the last round. Synonym of manicule . The characteristic signaling rhythm of an individual telegraph or CW operator when sending Morse code . (slang) A person's characteristic handwriting . A group of men. The talon s of a bird of prey . 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto…
• English - Verb: fist (third-person singular simple present fists, present participle fisting, simple past and past participle fisted) To strike with the fist. 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 by fisting the ball. To close (the hand ) into a fist. 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published…
• English - Anagrams: fits sift
• English - Etymology: Etymology 1. From Middle English fist , from Old English fȳst (“fist”), from Proto-West Germanic *fūsti (“fist”), of uncertain origin, but possibly from Proto-Indo-European *pewǵ- (“to punch; to prick, stab”). Cognates Cognate with Yola fest , hist (“fist”), Saterland Frisian Fäste , Fääste (“fist”), West Frisian fûst (“fist”), Central Franconian Fuus (“fist”), Cimbrian bòista , vòista (“fist”),…
• English - Pronunciation: IPA: /fɪst/ Rhymes: -ɪst