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fisticuffing

fisticuffing is the present participle and gerund 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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Noun

fisticuffing (plural fisticuffings)

  1. A physical fight; a brawl.

Forms of fisticuffing

pluralfisticuffings

Questions about fisticuffing

What does fisticuffing mean?
Fisticuffing means a physical fight; a brawl.
What is fisticuffing the present participle and gerund of?
Fisticuffing is the present participle and gerund of fisticuff.
What part of speech is fisticuffing?
Fisticuffing is a noun.
What is the plural of fisticuffing?
The plural of fisticuffing is fisticuffings.

Words near fisticuffing in the dictionary

  1. fisticuff
  2. fisticuffed
  3. fisticuffer
  4. fisticuffers
  5. fisticuffery
  6. fisticuffing
  7. fisticuffings
  8. fisticuffs
  9. fistily
  10. fistiness
  11. fisting

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