fistwise
advEtymology From fist + -wise.
1
In the manner of a fist.
- 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.2003, Trenton Merricks, Objects and Persons, page 153:
2
By means of the fists; by fighting with the fists.
- Sometimes the heroes were foolhardy enough to try taking on the Mummy fistwise.1990, Darrell Schweitzer, Weird Tales 296 (Spring 1990), page 57:
- Fistwise, Erog was going to beat me.2013, Bill James, In Good Hands: