Fighting

Pronunciation

Verb

1. Present participle of fight

Derived terms

• fighting chance

Adjective

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.

Full definition of fighting

Noun

1. A fight or battle; an occasion on which people fight
• 1613, , A Collection Of Old English Plays, Vol. IV. Chapter The Costlie Whore, Then here the warres end, here206 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 Chapter , 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 Chapter , 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.

Descendants

• Korean: 화이팅 (hwaiting)