fistfight vs fisticuffs what difference
what is difference between fistfight and fisticuffs
English
Alternative forms
- fist-fight, fist fight
Etymology
From fist + fight.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfɪstˌfaɪt/
Noun
fistfight (plural fistfights)
- A fight using bare fists.
Synonyms
- fisticuffs
- bare-hand boxing
- barehanded boxing
- bare-knuckle boxing
- bare-knuckled boxing
- duking it out
- hand-to-hand combat
- hand-to-hand fight
Translations
Verb
fistfight (third-person singular simple present fistfights, present participle fistfighting, simple past and past participle fistfought)
- To fight using bare fists.
Synonyms
- duke it out
Translations
English
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /ˈfɪs.tɪ.kʌfs/
Noun
fisticuffs pl (plural only)
- plural of fisticuff
- (plural only, informal) An impromptu fight with the fists, usually between only two people.
- 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers, “Virginibus Puerisque,”
- 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.
- 1890, Edmondo de Amicis translated by Caroline Tilton, Holland and Its People, Chapter XII
- […] , his head all scarred with the sticks and fisticuffs which he had got in the taverns at Utrecht, […]
- 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers, “Virginibus Puerisque,”
- (plural only, sports, dated) Bare-knuckled boxing, a form of boxing done without boxing gloves or similar padding.
- 1870, Charles Dicken, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Chapter XVII
- In his college days of athletic exercises, Mr. Crisparkle had known professors of the Noble Art of fisticuffs, […]
- 1870, Charles Dicken, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Chapter XVII
Synonyms
- (informal: fight): brawl, fight, fist-fight, punch-up
- (bare-knuckled boxing): prizefighting
Related terms
- fist
- fisticuff
- fisticuffer
Translations
See also
- boxing
- fighting
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