Meaning of Fisticuff | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A fistfight.
   rare
2. A cuff or blow administered with the fist.
   obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“Every fifteen or twenty minutes there was a rush to some part, to witness a fisticuff.”

“This clearly was not a case for fisticuffs, even apart from the very natural aversion I had to beat that Shadow—this wandering and tormented thing.”

“The apprenticeship of the Prussian Crown Princes has always consisted in receiving fisticuffs and cowhidings from their progenitor, the king.”

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