fisticuffs

fisticuffs

englanti

  1. käsirysy, nyrkkitappelu

Esimerkkejä fisticuffs sanan käytöstä:

It came down to fisticuffs.

Synonyymisanakirja

fisticuffs

  1. kontaktilaji, kontaktiurheilu, nyrkkeily, pugilismi, boksaus.

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Käännökset

englanti

boksaus

nyrkkitappelu (monikko) fisticuff|lang=en
puhekieltä An impromptu fight with the fists, usually between only two people.
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.
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, (..)
puhekieltä bare Bare-knuckled boxing, a form of boxing done without boxing gloves or similar padding.
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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