† clusterfist Obs.
[f. cluster in sense of lump, clumsy mass + fist; cf. clunch-fist.]
a. A clumsy-fisted fellow; a clown, boor, lout. b. A ‘close-fisted’ or grasping fellow; a niggard.
| 1611 Cotgr., Homme de porc & de boeuf, A grosse, base, rude, vnciuile, or vnmanerly churle, a clunch, a clusterfist. 1652 Urquhart Jewel Wks. (1834) 213 Cluster-fists and rapacious varlets. 1655 tr. Francion i. iii. 74 My owne cakes..of which he never proffered me so much as the least crum, so base a cluster-fist was he. 1658 Cleveland Rustic Rampant Wks. (1687) 470 The Charter, which was no where extant but in the Noddles of these Cluster-fists. 1675 Cotton Poet. Wks. (1765) 276 A whole hundred Cluster-fists. |
So † cluster-fisted, a.
| 1611 Coryat Crudities 44, I noted many of them to be very cluster-fisted lubbers. |