clubfisted

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1. Having a large fist.

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

   2014, Edward W. Robertson, Titans

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   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.

   2009, Deborah MacGillivray, One Snowy Knight

2. Crude and blunt, lacking finesse.

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

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

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   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.

   1592, Thomas Nashe, Piers Penniless his Supplication to the Devil

   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.

   2012, Marilee Brothers, Midnight Moon