fisticuff

fisticuffnoun

• 1

  rareA fistfight.

  • 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.
• 2

  obsoleteA cuff or blow administered with the fist.

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

fisticuffverb

• 1

  To engage in a physical fight.

  • 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

  obsoleteTo strike, fight or spar with the fists.

  • Do they fisticuff with thunder-snaggs […]