fist
NounOpen English WordNet
Noun (1)fists
- a hand with the fingers clenched in the palm (as for hitting)Synonyms: clenched fistType of hand, manus
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Translations
Noun clenched hand
- Spanish
- puño
- French
- poing
- German
- Faust
- Italian
- pugno
- Portuguese
- punho
- Turkish
- yumruk
- Russian
- кула́к kulák
- Arabic
- قَبْضَة qabḍa
- Chinese
- 拳头 quántou
- Japanese
- 拳 kobushi
32 more languages
- Dutch
- vuist
- Polish
- pięść
- Swedish
- knytnäve
- Greek
- γροθιά grothiá
- Korean
- 주먹 jumeok
- Indonesian
- tinju
- Vietnamese
- nắm đấm
- Hungarian
- ököl
- Portuguese (PT)
- punho
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 拳頭 quántou
- Albanian
- grusht
- Catalan
- puny
- Czech
- pěst
- Danish
- næve
- Esperanto
- pugno
- Estonian
- rusikas
- Finnish
- nyrkki
- Georgian
- მუშტი mušṭi
- Hebrew
- אֶגרוֹף egróf
- Icelandic
- hnefi
- Latvian
- dūre
- Lithuanian
- kumštis
- Norwegian
- knyttneve
- Romanian
- pumn
- Scottish Gaelic
- dòrn
- Serbo-Croatian
- pesnica
- Slovak
- päsť
- Slovenian
- pest
- Swahili
- ngumi
- Walloon
- pougn
- Welsh
- dwrn
- Yiddish
- פֿויסט foyst
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: OE. fist, fust, AS. fȳst; akin to D. vuist, OHG. fūst, G. faust, and prob. to L. pugnus, Gr. πυγμή fist, πύξ with the fist. Cf. Pugnacious, Pigmy.
1. The hand with the fingers doubled into the palm; the closed hand, especially as clinched tightly for the purpose of striking a blow.
Who grasp the earth and heaven with my fist.— George Herbert
2. The talons of a bird of prey. obsolete
More light than culver in the falcon's fist.— Edmund Spenser
3. print. the index mark [☞], used to direct special attention to the passage which follows.
Hand over fist Nautical, rapidly; hand over hand.
1. To strike with the fist. John Dryden
2. To gripe with the fist. obsolete William Shakespeare
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54