"clubfisted" meaning in English

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Adjective

Forms: more clubfisted [comparative], most clubfisted [superlative]
Etymology: From club + fisted. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|club|fisted}} club + fisted Head templates: {{en-adj}} clubfisted (comparative more clubfisted, superlative most clubfisted)
  1. Having a large fist.
    Sense id: en-clubfisted-en-adj-mTNDbthF
  2. Crude and blunt, lacking finesse.
    Sense id: en-clubfisted-en-adj-284Xbhwy Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 19 81 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 22 78 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 14 86
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          "text": "Baxter gripped the handle with his free hand and straightened his ball-hand in front of him, resembling a club-fisted Superman.",
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          "ref": "2009, Deborah MacGillivray, One Snowy Knight:",
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          "ref": "1592, Thomas Nashe, Piers Penniless his Supplication to the Devil:",
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          "ref": "2012, Marilee Brothers, Midnight Moon:",
          "text": "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.",
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