What does fisticuffs mean?
Fisticuffs means plural of fisticuff.
Looking up this word…
Checking saved dictionary data and trusted language sources. This will stop automatically if a source does not respond.
Checking saved dictionary data and trusted language sources. This will stop automatically if a source does not respond.
/ˈfɪs.tɪ.kʌfs/ · noun
plural of fisticuff.
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.
[…], his head all scarred with the sticks and fisticuffs which he had got in the taverns at Utrecht, […]
In his college days of athletic exercises, Mr. Crisparkle had known professors of the Noble Art of fisticuffs, […]
Use fisticuffs when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Fisticuffs means plural of fisticuff.
Common synonyms include brawl, fight, fistfight, punch-up.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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: […]
FreeDictionaryAPI.com / Wiktionary · Original source · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dictionary data is provided by FreeDictionaryAPI.com and sourced from Wiktionary under its stated license.