FIST
ADJECTIVES
L18.. ► CUNNY-THUMBED given to closing the fist, as a woman does, with the thumb turned inwards under the first three fingers → colloq.
1899 ► MUCKLE-NEEVED large-fisted → Sc.
NOUNS
1575 ► CLUB-FIST a large clenched fist that can deal a heavy blow; hence, a rough, brutal fellow, a thug → obs.
17C.. ► CLUTCH-FIST a very large fist
1625 ► MARROWBONES fists, as weapons → sl.
1625 ► MARROWS fists, as weapons → sl.
1641 ► MELL a heavy fist → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1641 ► NEIVE → NIEVE the fist, the closed hand; the hand → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1662 ► CLUNCHFIST a clenched fist → obs.
1694 ► CUFFER the fist → obs.
1773 ► DADDLE a hand or fist → Eng. dial. & criminals’ sl.
1780 ► MAULEY → MAULIE → MAWLEY → MORLEY a fist, a hand → sl.
1820 ► MAWLER → MAULER the hand; the fist → sl.
1821 ► MALLET the fist → sl.
1825 ► BUNCH OF FIVES the clenched fist; also, the hand → boxing sl.
1863 ► AUCTIONEER a pugilist’s fist → Eng. sl.
1865 ► OLIVER (TWIST) a fist → rhyming sl.
1866 ► CLOTTYMOLES clenched fists → Eng. dial.
1869 ► VICE a fist → Eng. dial.
1874 ► DOOK → DUKE the hand or fist → sl.
1880 ► FLY-DUSTERS fists → sl.
1882 ► DOUBLE NEIVE the clenched hand → Eng. dial.
1887 ► HARD FIST an ungloved fist
1893 ► MITT a hand, fist, or palm → US sl.
1894 ► NEIVE-SHAKING the shaking of the fist, threatening → Eng. dial.
1904 ► BONES the fist → Amer. students’ sl. (Bk.)
1904 ► SAMPSON → SAMSON the fist → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 ► HAMMER the fist; a blow with the fist → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 ► HAMMER O’ DEATH the fist; a blow with the fist → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 ► HAMMOCK the fist; a blow with the fist → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1919 ► MEATHOOK the hand or fist; usually plural → Amer. sl.
1981 ► GUNS the fists → US sl.
VERBS
1928 ► NIEVE to clench the fish spasmodically, to open and shut the hand → Sc.
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