ppl. a. Obs. [f. FIST v.2] That fists: applied as a contemptuous epithet. Fisting cur, dog, hound: a small pet dog (cf. foisting hound).

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1529.  More, A Dialoge of Comfort against Tribulacion, III. Wks. 1262/2. What mad man is he that when a Lion wer about to deuoure him, would vouchesafe to regard the biting of a litle fysting curre?

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1535.  Lyndesay, Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaits, 2134.

        Quhat kynd of woman is thy wyfe? …
Ane fistand flag, a flagartie fuffe.

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1546.  Bale, Eng. Votaries, I. (1550), 49. Where as your fisting Nonnes were of Antichrist and the deuill.

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1576.  Fleming, trans. Caius’ Dogs, in Arb., Garner, III. 267. This puppitly and peasantly cur [the Spaniel gentle] (which some, frumpingly, term Fisting Hounds) serve in a manner to no good use.

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1611.  Cotgr., Vessaille, a fysting; or a crue of fysting slouens or sluts.

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1630.  J. Taylor (Water P.), Wks., II. 227/1.

        No Daintie Ladies
  fisting-Hound,
That liue’s vpon our
  Britaine Ground.

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1688.  R. Holme, Armoury, II. 186/2. The Puppy, or Fisting-Dog, [is] such as Ladies delight in, and to be playing with.

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