fighting

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Verb 1.2.1 Derived terms 1.3 Adjective 1.3.1 Translations 1.4 Noun

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[edit] Verb

fighting

1. Present participle of fight.

[edit] Derived terms

• fighting chance

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fighting

1. engaged in war or other conflict
2. apt to provoke a fight
   • 1925 April 11, "Books", in The New Yorker, page 26,

     It seems like a fighting insult, but he explains.

   • 1947, Hold That Lion! (film),

     Them's fighting words in my country!

   • 2003, Marjorie Kelly, The Divine Right of Capital: Dethroning the Corporate Aristocracy, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, ISBN 1576752372, page xi,

     Those are fighting words, of course, and the people who presently hold the high ground of economic power in society will not be amused.

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[edit] Noun

fighting (plural fightings)

1. A fight or battle; an occasion on which people fight
   • 1613, “The Costlie Whore”, in A Collection Of Old English Plays, Vol. IV.^[1]:

     Then here the warres end, here[206] our fightings marde, Yet by your leave Ile stand upon my Guard.

   • 1840, Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in History^[2]:

     Seid had fallen in the War of Tabuc, the first of Mahomet's fightings with the Greeks.

   • 1860, John Yeardley, Memoir and Diary of John Yeardley, Minister of the Gospel^[3]:

     A good many soldiers, and some officers, were present; but the expression of our dissent from all wars and fightings had not displeased them, for they shook hands with US most kindly.