The stockholders are making money hand over fist.
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Fist
//fɪst//
Synonyms for "fist" (49 found)
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Closest matches (10)
Strong matches (15)
Related words (24)
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3 entriesRelated terms
2 entriescapable of
1 entriesdefined as
1 entriesderived
58 entriesShowing 16 of 58 words.
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3 entriesis a
3 entriesmade of
1 entriesnot has_property
1 entriesrelated to
20 entriesShowing 16 of 20 words.
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3 entriesTranslations
233 translations across 160 languages.
Abkhaz
1 entries- аҭаҷкум noun (clenched hand)
Adyghe
1 entries- бжым noun (clenched hand)
Albanian
3 entries- dumb noun (clenched hand)
- dumkë noun (clenched hand)
- grusht noun (clenched hand)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- πυγμή noun (clenched hand)
Arabic
4 entries- بوكس noun (clenched hand)
- بونية noun (clenched hand)
- بونية noun (clenched hand)
- قبضة noun (clenched hand)
Armenian
1 entries- բռունցք noun (clenched hand)
Aromanian
4 entries- bush noun (clenched hand)
- huftã noun (clenched hand)
- mãnatã noun (clenched hand)
- pulmu noun (clenched hand)
Assamese
1 entries- মুঠি noun (clenched hand)
Asturian
1 entries- puñu noun (clenched hand)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- yumruq noun (clenched hand)
Bangi
1 entries- liboto noun (clenched hand)
Bashkir
1 entries- йоҙроҡ noun (clenched hand)
Basque
1 entries- ukabil noun (clenched hand)
Belarusian
1 entries- кула́к noun (clenched hand)
Bengali
2 entries- কিল noun (clenched hand)
- মুষ্টি noun (clenched hand)
Bouyei
1 entries- jianz noun (clenched hand)
Bulgarian
4 entries- пестни́к noun (clenched hand)
- пестни́ца noun (clenched hand)
- юмру́к noun (clenched hand)
- удрям с юмрук verb (to strike with the fist)
Burmese
1 entries- လက်သီး noun (clenched hand)
Catalan
2 entries- puny noun (clenched hand)
- apunyalar verb (to strike with the fist)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- مست noun (clenched hand)
Chechen
1 entries- буй noun (clenched hand)
Cherokee
1 entries- ᏍᏇᏅᎢ noun (clenched hand)
Chinese
3 entries- чуйту noun (clenched hand)
- 拳頭 /拳头 noun (clenched hand)
- 拳頭母 /拳头母 noun (clenched hand)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 拳頭 /拳头 noun (clenched hand)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 拳頭 /拳头 noun (clenched hand)
Church Slavic
1 entries- пѧсть noun (clenched hand)
Chuvash
2 entries- чышка noun (clenched hand)
- чӑмӑр noun (clenched hand)
Classical Nahuatl
1 entries- māolōlli noun (clenched hand)
Coptic
2 entries- ϧⲟⲣⲡⲥ noun (clenched hand)
- ϭⲁϫⲙⲏ noun (clenched hand)
Corsican
1 entries- pugnu noun (clenched hand)
Crimean Tatar
2 entries- yumruq noun (clenched hand)
- yumrıq noun (clenched hand)
Czech
1 entries- pěst noun (clenched hand)
Danish
2 entries- knytnæve noun (clenched hand)
- næve noun (clenched hand)
Dari
1 entries- مُشْت noun (clenched hand)
Dolgan
1 entries- һутурук noun (clenched hand)
Dutch
1 entries- vuist noun (clenched hand)
Eastern Min Chinese
1 entries- 拳頭母 /拳头母 noun (clenched hand)
Elfdalian
1 entries- knåytnevi noun (clenched hand)
Esperanto
1 entries- pugno noun (clenched hand)
Estonian
1 entries- rusikas noun (clenched hand)
Finnish
4 entries- koura noun (clenched hand)
- nyrkki noun (clenched hand)
- iskeä nyrkillä verb (to strike with the fist)
- lyödä nyrkillä verb (to strike with the fist)
French
2 entries- manicule noun ((printing) the pointing hand symbol)
- poing noun (clenched hand)
Friulian
1 entries- pugn noun (clenched hand)
Galician
1 entries- puño noun (clenched hand)
Gan Chinese
1 entries- 拳頭 /拳头 noun (clenched hand)
Georgian
3 entries- მუშტი noun (clenched hand)
- მუჭი noun (clenched hand)
- მჯიღი noun (clenched hand)
German
1 entries- Faust noun (clenched hand)
Greek
1 entries- γροθιά noun (clenched hand)
Greenlandic
2 entries- assak noun (clenched hand)
- assak eqeruloorsimasoq noun (clenched hand)
Gujarati
1 entries- મૂક્કો noun (clenched hand)
Hakka Chinese
2 entries- 拳頭 /拳头 noun (clenched hand)
- 拳頭嫲 /拳头嫲 noun (clenched hand)
Hawaiian
1 entries- puʻupuʻu lima noun (clenched hand)
Hebrew
1 entries- אֶגרוֹף noun (clenched hand)
Hindi
4 entries- मुट्ठी noun (clenched hand)
- मुश्त noun (clenched hand)
- घूंसा मारना verb (to strike with the fist)
- मुक्का मारना verb (to strike with the fist)
Hungarian
1 entries- ököl noun (clenched hand)
Hunsrik
1 entries- Faust noun (clenched hand)
Icelandic
2 entries- hnefi noun (clenched hand)
- kreppt hönd noun (clenched hand)
Ido
1 entries- pugno noun (clenched hand)
Indonesian
1 entries- tinju noun (clenched hand)
Ingrian
2 entries- kulakka noun (clenched hand)
- nyrkki noun (clenched hand)
Iranian Persian
1 entries- مُشْت noun (clenched hand)
Irish
2 entries- dorn noun (clenched hand)
- dornáil verb (to strike with the fist)
Istriot
1 entries- poûgno noun (clenched hand)
Italian
2 entries- manina noun ((printing) the pointing hand symbol)
- pugno noun (clenched hand)
Japanese
1 entries- 拳 noun (clenched hand)
Kaitag
1 entries- къкъвяш noun (clenched hand)
Kalasha
1 entries- موُشؕٹی noun (clenched hand)
Kalmyk
1 entries- нудрм noun (clenched hand)
Kannada
1 entries- ಮುಷ್ಟಿ noun (clenched hand)
Karachay-Balkar
1 entries- джумдурукъ noun (clenched hand)
Kashubian
1 entries- pisc noun (clenched hand)
Kazakh
1 entries- жұдырық noun (clenched hand)
Khakas
2 entries- мунзурух noun (clenched hand)
- нузурух noun (clenched hand)
Khmer
1 entries- កណ្ដាប់ដៃ noun (clenched hand)
Korean
1 entries- 주먹 noun (clenched hand)
Kumyk
1 entries- юмурукъ noun (clenched hand)
Kyrgyz
2 entries- жудурук noun (clenched hand)
- муштум noun (clenched hand)
Lao
4 entries- ກຳປ້ັນ noun (clenched hand)
- ມຸດຖິ noun (clenched hand)
- ເງຶ້ອມມື noun (clenched hand)
- ໝັດ noun (clenched hand)
Latgalian
1 entries- dyure noun (clenched hand)
Latin
1 entries- pugnus noun (clenched hand)
Latvian
1 entries- dūre noun (clenched hand)
Laz
1 entries- mcixi noun (clenched hand)
Lingala
1 entries- ebotu noun (clenched hand)
Lithuanian
1 entries- kumštis noun (clenched hand)
Lombard
1 entries- pugn noun (clenched hand)
Lower Sorbian
1 entries- pěsć noun (clenched hand)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- Fauscht noun (clenched hand)
Macedonian
1 entries- тупаница noun (clenched hand)
Malay
3 entries- buku lima noun (clenched hand)
- penumbuk noun (clenched hand)
- tinju noun (clenched hand)
Malayalam
1 entries- മുഷ്ടി noun (clenched hand)
Maltese
1 entries- ponn noun (clenched hand)
Manchu
1 entries- ᠨ᠋ᡠᠵᠠᠨ noun (clenched hand)
Marathi
1 entries- मुठी noun (clenched hand)
Mazanderani
1 entries- میس noun (clenched hand)
Meru
1 entries- nkundi noun (clenched hand)
Mongolian
2 entries- нударга noun (clenched hand)
- ᠨᠢᠳᠤᠷᠭᠠ noun (clenched hand)
Neapolitan
1 entries- punio noun (clenched hand)
Nepali
1 entries- मुट्ठी noun (clenched hand)
Nogai
1 entries- юмырык noun (clenched hand)
Northern Altai
1 entries- ньундурук noun (clenched hand)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- mişt noun (clenched hand)
Northern Min Chinese
1 entries- 拳頭 /拳头 noun (clenched hand)
Northern Sami
1 entries- čorbma noun (clenched hand)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- knyttneve noun (clenched hand)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- knyttneve noun (clenched hand)
Occitan
2 entries- ponh noun (clenched hand)
- punh noun (clenched hand)
Odia
1 entries- ମୁଥ noun (clenched hand)
Ossetian
2 entries- мустучъи noun (clenched hand)
- тымбылкъух noun (clenched hand)
Ottoman Turkish
3 entries- مشت noun (clenched hand)
- یومروق noun (clenched hand)
- یومروقلامق verb (to strike with the fist)
Pashto
2 entries- سوک noun (clenched hand)
- ګورمټ noun (clenched hand)
Polish
2 entries- pięść noun (clenched hand)
- piąstkować verb (to strike with the fist)
Portuguese
2 entries- pulso noun ((ham radio) the characteristic signaling rhythm)
- punho noun (clenched hand)
Punjabi
1 entries- ਮੁੱਠੀ noun (clenched hand)
Romagnol
1 entries- pogn noun (clenched hand)
Romanian
1 entries- pumn noun (clenched hand)
Romansch
2 entries- pugn noun (clenched hand)
- puogn noun (clenched hand)
Russian
1 entries- кула́к noun (clenched hand)
Samogitian
1 entries- komstės noun (clenched hand)
Sanskrit
1 entries- मुष्टि noun (clenched hand)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- dòrn noun (clenched hand)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- pèsnica noun (clenched hand)
- пѐсница noun (clenched hand)
Shor
1 entries- музуруқ noun (clenched hand)
Sindhi
1 entries- مک noun (clenched hand)
Sinhalese
1 entries- හස්තය noun (clenched hand)
Slovak
1 entries- päsť noun (clenched hand)
Slovene
1 entries- pest noun (clenched hand)
Southern Altai
1 entries- јудрук noun (clenched hand)
Spanish
4 entries- manecilla noun ((printing) the pointing hand symbol)
- manícula noun ((printing) the pointing hand symbol)
- puño noun (clenched hand)
- apuñalar verb (to strike with the fist)
Swahili
2 entries- konde noun (clenched hand)
- ngumi noun (clenched hand)
Swedish
1 entries- knytnäve noun (clenched hand)
Tajik
1 entries- мушт noun (clenched hand)
Tamil
1 entries- முஷ்டி noun (clenched hand)
Tatar
2 entries- йодрык noun (clenched hand)
- йомрык noun (clenched hand)
Telugu
2 entries- పిడికిలి noun (clenched hand)
- ముష్టి noun (clenched hand)
Thai
2 entries- กำปั้น noun (clenched hand)
- หมัด noun (clenched hand)
Tibetan
2 entries- མཛོག་རུམ noun (clenched hand)
- མུར་རྫོག noun (clenched hand)
Tocharian B
1 entries- maśce noun (clenched hand)
Tofa
1 entries- нюдуруӄ noun (clenched hand)
Tooro
2 entries- ekikonde class 7 noun (clenched hand)
- entomi class 9 noun (clenched hand)
Turkish
2 entries- yumruk noun (clenched hand)
- yumruklamak verb (to strike with the fist)
Turkmen
1 entries- ýumruk noun (clenched hand)
Tuvan
1 entries- чудурук noun (clenched hand)
Udmurt
2 entries- кимыж noun (clenched hand)
- мыжык noun (clenched hand)
Ukrainian
2 entries- кула́к noun (clenched hand)
- п'ясть noun (clenched hand)
Unami
1 entries- tùkwëlënch noun (clenched hand)
Upper Sorbian
1 entries- pjasć noun (clenched hand)
Urdu
2 entries- مُشْت noun (clenched hand)
- مُٹّھی noun (clenched hand)
Urum
3 entries- йудрух noun (clenched hand)
- йумрух noun (clenched hand)
- йумурух noun (clenched hand)
Uyghur
1 entries- مۇشت noun (clenched hand)
Uzbek
1 entries- musht noun (clenched hand)
Venetan
1 entries- pugno noun (clenched hand)
Vietnamese
3 entries- nắm tay noun (clenched hand)
- nắm đấm noun (clenched hand)
- quyền noun (clenched hand)
Volapük
1 entries- pun noun (clenched hand)
Walloon
1 entries- pougn noun (clenched hand)
Welsh
1 entries- dwrn noun (clenched hand)
West-Frisian
1 entries- knûst noun (clenched hand)
Wu Chinese
1 entries- 拳頭 /拳头 noun (clenched hand)
Yakut
2 entries- сутурук noun (clenched hand)
- сутурух noun (clenched hand)
Yiddish
1 entries- פֿויסט noun (clenched hand)
Zhuang
2 entries- gaemxgienz noun (clenched hand)
- gienz noun (clenched hand)
Sample sentences
17 total sentences available.
The speaker banged the table with his fist.
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A closed fist can indicate stress.
Source: tatoeba (28515)
The new restaurant was making the owners money hand over fist.
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