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English
Etymology
From fist + -ic. Doublet of fisty.
Pronunciation
Adjective
fistic (comparative more fistic, superlative most fistic)
- Of or pertaining to boxing or fighting with fists.
- Synonyms: fistical, pugilistic
1864 May – 1865 November, Charles Dickens, “More Birds of Prey”, in Our Mutual Friend. , volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, , published 1865, →OCLC, book the second (Birds of a Feather), page 271:But she was here interrupted […] by her father's hat being heavily flung from his hand and striking her face. Accustomed to such occasional manifestations of his sense of parental duty, Pleasant merely wiped her face on her hair (which of course had tumbled down) before she twisted it up. This was another common procedure on the part of the ladies of the Hole, when heated by verbal or fistic altercation.
1904 March 23, “Is No Longer Virgin Alley”, in The Pittsburg Press, page 3:The fight over this ordinance had as one of its features, a few days ago, a fistic encounter between Robert Oestermaier and Attorney Curtis M. Willock.
1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 1: Telemachus]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, , →OCLC, part I , page 12:The Englishman, whose right eye was nearly closed, took his corner where he was liberally drenched with water and when the bell went came on gamey and brimful of pluck, confident of knocking out the fistic Eblanite in jigtime.
2009 April 27, Chris Zelkovich, “Sorry folks, but fights don’t turn games around”, in Toronto Star:Though analyst Gary Galley first said the fistic defeat would probably spell the end for Pittsburgh, he later agreed with his colleagues that Talbot's impression of a punching bag had indeed changed the course of the game.
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish فستق (fıstık), from Arabic فُسْتُق (fustuq), from Middle Persian pstk' (pistag).
Pronunciation
Noun
fistic m (plural fistici)
- pistachio (tree)
Declension
Noun
fistic n (plural fisticuri)
- pistachio (fruit)
Declension
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