fightah

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Noun

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fightah (plural fightahs)

  1. Pronunciation spelling of fighter.
    • 1924, The Fighting Coward:
      "And yeah comes the ownah of dis place — Gen'l O'lando Jackson–th' no-tor-ious fightah!"
    • 2002, Rodney Morales, When the Shark Bites, University of Hawaii Press, →ISBN, page 340:
      Daddy was da main crime fightah. I was his sidekick.
    • 2006, Paul Dean Coker, The Figurehead, Paul Dean Coker, →ISBN, page 224:
      A feral untamed fightah, bravah thahn any I've known since, present company accepted.
    • 2018, Joseph Altsheler, The Sword of Antietam, B&R Samizdat Express, →ISBN:
      Gen'ral Buell, f'om all I heah, is a good fightah, but slow.