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hardfisted

hardfisted is the alternative form of hard-fisted.

Meaning of hard-fisted

Adjective

hard-fisted (comparative more hard-fisted, superlative most hard-fisted)

  1. Having hard or strong hands.
    • a hard-fisted labourer
  2. covetous; niggardly
    • It is easy to observe, that none are so gripple and hard fisted, as the childless […]1646, Jos[eph] Hall, The Balme of Gilead: Or, Comforts for the Distressed, both Morall and Divine. […], London: […] M[iles] Flesher, for Nat[haniel] Butter, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    closefisted

Forms of hardfisted

comparativemore hardfisted
superlativemost hardfisted

Questions about hardfisted

What is hardfisted the alternative form of?
Hardfisted is the alternative form of hard-fisted.

Words near hardfisted in the dictionary

  1. hardfaced
  2. hardfaces
  3. hardfacing
  4. hardfern
  5. hardferns
  6. hardfisted
  7. hardfistedness
  8. hardflip
  9. hardflips
  10. hardfloat
  11. hardfought

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