"effeminate hand fighting"; Tagalog: kinamotay; Baybayin: ᜊᜒᜈᜋᜓᜆᜌ᜔), commonly but incorrectly orientalized kino mutai,[1][2] is a specialized subsection of some martial arts that emphasizes biting, pinching, eye-gouging, and other forms of "dirty" fighting techniques.
[3][4][5][6][7] Although in Cebu it is culturally associated with women's catfighting, the techniques used are effective against opponents of all sizes.
The root word of the term is Cebuano kinamut, "using the hands" (such as in eating food), from kamut, "hand" (and compare related Tagalog kamot, "to scratch"), with the feminizing suffix -ay.
[2][8][11] It was popularized in the magazine Black Belt in the late 1980s, especially by martial artist Paul Vunak;[12] it is also associated with Jeet Kune Do.
Favored targets include sensitive and easily accessible areas such as the face, neck, ear, groin, nipple, and latissimus dorsi muscle.