fistwise

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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adv

In the manner of a fist.

adv

By means of the fists; by fighting with the fists.

"Suppose that while you are comatose, I use your fist, as if it were a hammer, to shatter the window. It seems quite plausible that, although your atoms arranged fistwise cause the window to shatter, you do not."
"Sometimes the heroes were foolhardy enough to try taking on the Mummy fistwise."
"Fistwise, Erog was going to beat me."

From fist + -wise.

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