Fisticuffs

//ˈfɪs.tɪˌkəfs//

Synonyms for "fisticuffs" (21 found)

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Closest matches (5)

Noun(1 words)
fistfight
Adjective(1 words)
barney

Strong matches (6)

Noun(3 words)
boxingbrawlfight

Related words (10)

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Translations

13 translations across 9 languages.

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Bulgarian

2 entries
  • бокс без ръкавици noun (bare-knuckled boxing)
  • юмручен бой noun (informal: a fight with the fists)

Dutch

1 entries
  • knokpartij noun (informal: a fight with the fists)

Finnish

1 entries
  • käsirysy noun (informal: a fight with the fists)

French

3 entries
  • bagarre noun (informal: a fight with the fists)
  • pugilat noun (bare-knuckled boxing)
  • rififi noun (informal: a fight with the fists)

German

1 entries
  • Handgreiflichkeiten noun (informal: a fight with the fists)

Hungarian

1 entries
  • bunyó noun (informal: a fight with the fists)

Plautdietsch

1 entries
  • Schläajarie noun (informal: a fight with the fists)

Russian

2 entries
  • кулачный бой noun (informal: a fight with the fists)
  • мордобой noun (informal: a fight with the fists)

Spanish

1 entries
  • trifulca noun (informal: a fight with the fists)

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It ended in fisticuffs.

Source: tatoeba (5674319)

So he obſerves that all ſimple Governments are apt to ſome evil that is peculiar and conſequential to their Nature, as he inſtanceth in a Kingdom changed into Monarchy abſolute, by which he means that which we now call Tyranny; Ariſtocracy into Oligarchy, and Democracy into Beſtial Chirocracy, when the Seditious of people prevail more by Fiſticuffs than reaſon: […]

Source: wiktionary

People who share a cell in the Basti[l]le […] if they do not immediately fall to fisticuffs, will find some possible ground of compromise.

Source: wiktionary

[…], his head all scarred with the sticks and fisticuffs which he had got in the taverns at Utrecht, […]

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