clubfistedとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

clubfisted (comparative more clubfisted, superlative most clubfisted)

1. Having a large fist.
   • 2014, Edward W. Robertson, Titans:

     Baxter gripped the handle with his free hand and straightened his ball-hand in front of him, resembling a club-fisted Superman.

   • 2009, Deborah MacGillivray, One Snowy Knight:

     As Skena, once again, started to go by the stout woman, Ella met her, the club-fisted hands shoving at her so hard, it knocked her back several steps.

2. Crude and blunt, lacking finesse.
   • 1592, Piers Penniless his Supplication to the Devilauthor=Thomas Nashe:

     I will defend it against any Collian, or clubfisted Usurer of them all, there is no immortalitie can be given a man on earth like unto Playes.

   • 1655, James Howell, “To my cousin, Mr. St. Geon […] ”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], volume (please specify the page), 3rd edition, London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], OCLC 84295516:

     As Logic is clubfisted and crabbed, so she is terrible at first sight

   • 2012, Marilee Brothers, Midnight Moon:

     Tomorrow night was graduation, and guess who was chairman of the decoration committee? None other than clubfisted, not a single artistic bone in her body, Allie Emerson.