fisticuffとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

fisticuff (plural fisticuffs)

1. (rare) A fistfight.
   • 1852, Eli Bowen et al., The Pictorial Sketch-book of Pennsylvania:

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

   • 1902, Joseph Conrad, “Heart of Darkness”, in Youth: A Narrative: And Two Other Stories, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and sons, →OCLC, part III, pages 161–162:

     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.

2. (obsolete) A cuff or blow administered with the fist.
   • 2021, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

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

動詞

fisticuff (third-person singular simple present fisticuffs, present participle fisticuffing, simple past and past participle fisticuffed)

1. (chiefly humorous) To engage in a physical fight.
   • 1963, J P Donleavy, A Singular Man, published 1963 (USA), page 265:

     Generously scattering a drop of my fortune on an early morning sea breeze. Should have jumped after it. Grabber at life's banquet follows a fortune to doom. As folk fleece and fisticuff in street.

2. (obsolete) To strike, fight or spar with the fists.
   • 1846, Making of America Project, The American Whig Review:

     Do they fisticuff with thunder-snaggs […]

派生語

• fisticuffer

参照

• “fisticuff”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “fisticuff”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
• Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary, 1987-1996.