different between frist vs fist

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f??st/
• Rhymes: -?st

Etymology 1

From Middle English *frist, frest, first, furst, from Old English fierst (“period, space of time, time, respite, truce”), from Proto-Germanic *fristiz, *frest? (“date, appointed time”), from Proto-Indo-European *pres-, *per- (“forward, forth, over, beyond”). Cognate with North Frisian ferst, frest (“period, time”), German Frist (“period, deadline, term”), Swedish frist (“deadline, respite, reprieve, time-limit”), Icelandic frestur (“period”). See also first.

Noun

frist (countable and uncountable, plural frists)

1. (obsolete) A certain space or period of time; respite.
2. (Britain dialectal) Time allotted for repayment; a term (in which a debt is to be repaid); a delay; respite; suspension.
   • 1721, James Kelly, Scottish Proverbs:

     All Ills are good a frist.

   • 1888, Murray's Magazine:

     My time is short, my frist is o'er, and I have much to say.

3. (Britain dialectal) Credit; trust.
   • 1492–1503, Andrew Halyburton, Andrew Halyburton's ledger:

     I sald tham to fryst to a man of the Hag.

     I sold them to frist to a man of the Hague.

   • a1568, Sir David Lindsay, Ane Discriptioun of Peder Coffeis:

     Ane dyvour coffe, that wirry hen, / Distroyis the honor of our natioun, / Takis gudis to frist fra fremmit men, / And brekis his obligatioun.

     One bankrupt rouge , that wirry hen, / destroys the honor of our nation / takes goods to frist from fremd men, / and breaks his obligation.

   • c.1568, William Lauder, The Lamenatioun of The Pure:

     Credit and frist is quyte away, / No thing is lent bot for usure; […]

Etymology 2

From Middle English *fristen, frysten, fresten, firsten, from Old English *fyrstan (“to defer, delay, put off”), from fyrst, fierst, first (“period, space of time, time, respite, truce”). See Etymology 1. Cognate with Low German versten, German fristen (“to eke out”), Danish friste (“to sustain, support, experience, tempt”), Icelandic fresta (“to delay”).

Verb

frist (third-person singular simple present frists, present participle fristing, simple past and past participle fristed)

1. (transitive, Britain dialectal) To sell (goods) on trust or credit.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Crabb to this entry?)

2. (Britain dialectal) To grant respite.
3. (Britain dialectal) To give a debtor credit or time for payment.
4. (transitive, intransitive, Britain dialectal) To defer; postpone.

Derived terms

• fristing

Anagrams

• FTIRs, First, SIRTF, first, frits, rifts

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fresd/, [?f??sd?]

Etymology 1

From Old Danish frest, Old Norse frest n, from Proto-Germanic *frest?, related to *fristiz in German Frist f. The modern Danish form is probably influenced by German.

Noun

frist c (singular definite fristen, plural indefinite frister)

1. deadline

Inflection

Synonyms

• deadline

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

frist

1. imperative of friste

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fr?st/

Adjective

frist

1. Superlative form of fris

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse frest n, Proto-Germanic *frest? (“date; appointed time”), from *fres (“forward”), from Proto-Indo-European *pres- (“to press”), from *per- (“forward, forth, over, beyond”).

Noun

frist m (definite singular fristen, indefinite plural frister, definite plural fristene)

1. deadline

References

• “frist” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

English

Alternative forms

• foost (Scots)

Pronunciation

• enPR: f?st, IPA^(key): /f?st/
• Rhymes: -?st

Etymology 1

From Middle English fist, from Old English f?st (“fist”), from Proto-West Germanic *f?sti, of uncertain origin. Cognate with Dutch vuist, German Faust. More at five.

Noun

fist (plural fists)

1. A hand with the fingers clenched or curled inward.

   The boxer's fists rained down on his opponent in the last round.

2. (printing) The pointing hand symbol ?.
3. (amateur radio) The characteristic signaling rhythm of an individual telegraph or CW operator when sending Morse code.
4. (slang) A person's characteristic handwriting.
5. A group of men. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
6. The talons of a bird of prey.
7. (informal) An attempt at something.
   • 2015, Daniel Taylor, Manchester City’s Sergio Agüero too good for Chelsea as Diego Costa labours (in The Guardian, 16 August 2015) [1]:

     City look stronger, fitter and more motivated than last season and even at this early stage the gap feels like a sizeable advantage. Yes, it is way too early to make snap judgments about the impact on the title race. It has, however, been long enough to ascertain that Manuel Pellegrini’s team are going to make a much better fist of it this time.

   • 2005, Darryl N. Davis, Visions of Mind: Architectures for Cognition and Affect, page 144:

     With the rise of cognitive neuroscience, the time may be coming when we can make a reasonable fist of mapping down from an understanding of the functional architecture of the mind to the structural architecture of the brain.

Synonyms

• bunch of fives
• fist-size
• ductus

Derived terms

Related terms

• fisticuff
• tight-fisted

Translations

Verb

fist (third-person singular simple present fists, present participle fisting, simple past and past participle fisted)

1. To strike with the fist.

   ...may not score a point with his open hand(s), but may score a point by fisting the ball. Damian Cullen. "Running the rule." The Irish Times 18 Aug 2003, pg. 52.

2. To close (the hand) into a fist.
   • 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2011, p. 29:

     He noticed Ada's trick of hiding her fingernails by fisting her hand or stretching it with the palm turned upward when helping herself to a biscuit.

3. To grip with a fist.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 34

     I am an officer; but, how I wish I could fist a bit of old-fashioned beef in the fore-castle, as I used to when I was before the mast.

4. (slang) To fist-fuck.

Translations

See also

• knuckle
• punch

Etymology 2

From Middle English fisten, fiesten, from Old English *fistan ("to break wind gently"; supported by Old English fisting (“breaking wind”)), from Proto-Germanic *fistaz (“breaking wind, fart”), from Proto-Germanic *f?san? (“to break or discharge wind, fart”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peys- (“to blow, breathe”). Cognate with Dutch veest (“a fart”), Low German f?sten (“to break wind”), German Fist (“a quiet wind”), Fisten (“breaking wind”), Swedish fisa (“to fart”), Latin sp?r? (“breathe, blow”), Albanian fryj (“to blow, breath”).

Verb

fist (third-person singular simple present fists, present participle fisting, simple past and past participle fisted)

1. (intransitive) To break wind.

Derived terms

• fisting

Noun

fist (plural fists)

1. The act of breaking wind; fise.
2. A puffball.

Anagrams

• FITs, FiTs, ITFs, TIFs, fits, sift

Middle English

Alternative forms

• fust, fest, feest, vest

Etymology

From Old English f?st, from Proto-West Germanic *f?sti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fi?st/, /fist/

Noun

fist (plural fistes)

1. fist

Descendants

• English: fist
• Scots: fist, fyst
• Yola: hist, fest

References

• “f??st, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Middle French

Verb

fist

1. third-person singular past historic of faire

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• feset

Verb

fist

1. past participle of fise