fisticuffs

fisticuffs

1. käsirysy, nyrkkitappelu

Esimerkkejä:

It came down to fisticuffs.

Synonyymisanakirja

fisticuffs

kontaktilaji, kontaktiurheilu, nyrkkeily, pugilismi, boksaus.

Englannin sanakirja

fisticuffs (englanti > suomi)

1. käsirysy

fisticuffs englanniksi

1. (monikko) fisticuff|lang=en

2. puhekieltä An impromptu fight with the fists, usually between only two people.

3. 1881, w:Robert Louis Stevenson|Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers, "s:Virginibus_PuerisqueCHAPTER_I_-_.22VIRGINIBUS_PUERISQUE.22 Virginibus Puerisque,"

People who share a cell in the Bastille (..) if they do not immediately fall to fisticuffs, will find some possible ground of compromise.

4. 1890, w:Edmondo de Amicis|Edmondo de Amicis translated by Caroline Tilton, Holland and Its People, s:Holland and its People/Chapter XII|Chapter XII

(..), his head all scarred with the sticks and fisticuffs which he had got in the taverns at Utrecht, (..)

5. puhekieltä bare Bare-knuckled boxing, a form of boxing done without boxing gloves or similar padding.

6. 1870, w:Charles Dicken|Charles Dicken, w:The Mystery of Edwin Drood|The Mystery of Edwin Drood, s:The Mystery of Edwin Drood/Chapter XVII|Chapter XVII

In his college days of athletic exercises, Mr. Crisparkle had known professors of the Noble Art of fisticuffs, (..)

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