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fisticuffed

fisticuffed is the simple past and past participle of fisticuff.

Meaning of fisticuff

Verb

fisticuff (third-person singular simple present fisticuffs, present participle fisticuffing, simple past and past participle fisticuffed)

  1. (humorous) To engage in a physical fight.
    • Generously scattering a drop of my fortune on an early morning sea breeze. Should have jumped after it. Grabber at life's banquet follows a fortune to doom. As folk fleece and fisticuff in street.1963, J P Donleavy, A Singular Man, published 1963 (USA), page 265
  2. (obsolete) To strike, fight or spar with the fists.
    • Do they fisticuff with thunder-snaggs […]1846, Making of America Project, The American Whig Review

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Questions about fisticuffed

What is fisticuffed the simple past and past participle of?
Fisticuffed is the simple past and past participle of fisticuff.

Words near fisticuffed in the dictionary

  1. fistfuls
  2. fistiana
  3. fistic
  4. fistical
  5. fisticuff
  6. fisticuffed
  7. fisticuffer
  8. fisticuffers
  9. fisticuffery
  10. fisticuffing
  11. fisticuffings

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