Fisty

adj, slang

adj, slang ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Involving the fists; pugilistic. informal, not-comparable

    "As when, at some low Bacchanalian feast, His drunken votaries, for a trifling jest Or ancient grudge, two staggering clowns begin A fisty fight, fools from all sides rush in: They pull, they rend, they shout […]"

Example

More examples

"As when, at some low Bacchanalian feast, His drunken votaries, for a trifling jest Or ancient grudge, two staggering clowns begin A fisty fight, fools from all sides rush in: They pull, they rend, they shout […]"

Etymology

From fist + -y. Piecewise doublet of fistic.

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