fisticuff
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Is fisticuff a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends No
What is the meaning of fisticuff?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (rare) A fistfight.Examples: "Every fifteen or twenty minutes there was a rush to some part, to witness a fisticuff."; "This clearly was not a case for fisticuffs, even apart from the very natural aversion I had to beat that Shadow—this wandering and tormented thing."rare
2. (obsolete) A cuff or blow administered with the fist.Examples: "The apprenticeship of the Prussian Crown Princes has always consisted in receiving fisticuffs and cowhidings from their progenitor, the king."obsolete
verb (English)
1. (chiefly humorous) To engage in a physical fight.Examples: "Generously scattering a drop of my fortune on an early morning sea breeze. Should have jumped after it. Grabber at life's banquet follows a fortune to doom. As folk fleece and fisticuff in street."humorous
2. (obsolete) To strike, fight or spar with the fists.Examples: "Do they fisticuff with thunder-snaggs […]"obsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary