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clubfisted en · ADJ

Etymology

From club + fisted.

Meanings

1. Having a large fist.
   • As Skena, once again, started to go by the stout woman, Ella met her, the club-fisted hands shoving at her so hard, it knocked her back several steps. 2009, Deborah MacGillivray, One Snowy Knight:
   • Baxter gripped the handle with his free hand and straightened his ball-hand in front of him, resembling a club-fisted Superman. 2014, Edward W. Robertson, Titans:
2. Crude and blunt, lacking finesse.
   • Tomorrow night was graduation, and guess who was chairman of the decoration committee? None other than clubfisted, not a single artistic bone in her body, Allie Emerson. 2012, Marilee Brothers, Midnight Moon:
   • As Logic is clubfisted and crabbed, so she is terrible at first sight 1655, James Howell, “To my cousin, Mr. St. Geon […] ”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume (please specify the page), London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], →OCLC:
   • I will defend it against any Collian, or clubfisted Usurer of them all, there is no immortalitie can be given a man on earth like unto Playes. 1592, Thomas Nashe, Piers Penniless his Supplication to the Devil:

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