fistwise
English
Etymology
fist + -wise
Adverb
fistwise (not comparable)
- In the manner of a fist.
- 2003, Trenton Merricks, Objects and Persons (page 153)
- Suppose that while you are comatose, I use your fist, as if it were a hammer, to shatter the window. It seems quite plausible that, although your atoms arranged fistwise cause the window to shatter, you do not.
- 2003, Trenton Merricks, Objects and Persons (page 153)
- By means of the fists; by fighting with the fists.
- 1990, Darrell Schweitzer, Weird Tales 296 (Spring 1990) (page 57)
- Sometimes the heroes were foolhardy enough to try taking on the Mummy fistwise.
- 2013, Bill James, In Good Hands
- Fistwise, Erog was going to beat me.
- 1990, Darrell Schweitzer, Weird Tales 296 (Spring 1990) (page 57)