- 1互毆；拳腳相向（舊、帶點玩笑）
Fisticuffs is a fight with bare hands — no knives, no sticks, just hitting. You almost always hear it with a smile, or in an old-fashioned voice, like a : “It nearly came to fisticuffs.” News about a real street fight would say a fight or a brawl; fisticuffs makes the scene a bit like a cartoon or an old story. The word stays plural, like scissors; people do not usually say “a fisticuff.” The cuff piece is an old word for a blow, a hit — not the cuff of a sleeve, and not the metal rings police put on wrists.
組成fist + cuff, an old word for a blow, a hit. The extra sound in the middle is just how the joke-word was built.
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
fisticuffsnoun/ˈfɪs.tɪ.kʌfs/
- 1
informalAn impromptu fight with the fists, usually between only two people.
- 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: […]
- 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.
- 2
datedhobbieslifestylesportsBare-knuckled boxing, a form of boxing done without boxing gloves or similar padding.
- In his college days of athletic exercises, Mr. Crisparkle had known professors of the Noble Art of fisticuffs, […]
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
- fisticuff
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。